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means A container for discarding paper, trash, and anything you've decided isn't worth keeping.
from A simple compound of 'waste' (that which is discarded or used up, from Latin vastus, 'empty, desolate') and 'basket' (a woven container, whose own origin is murky — possibly Celtic or Anglo-Norman, nobody's fully sure). The two words were married in everyday English once offices and homes needed a polite place to put things they didn't want to see again.
- origin
- predates recycling bins by centuries
- irony
- usually overflowing before it's emptied
- office truth
- holds more rejected drafts than trash
- etymology
- waste once meant uninhabited wild land