I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rubbish/waste bin
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The rubbish bin is full.
a waste pipe
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What’s the best way to clear a blocked waste pipe?
a wasted journey (= one that did not achieve the result you wanted )
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To avoid a wasted journey, ring first to check that the event is still on.
a wasted trip (= a trip in which you do not achieve what you wanted to )
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I’m afraid you’ve had a wasted trip. We don’t have those shoes in stock.
a wasted/lost/missed opportunity (= one you do not use )
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Many people see the failed talks as a missed opportunity for peace.
a wastepaper/waste basket (= for paper you throw away )
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He threw her letter in the wastepaper basket.
be a waste of money
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Fancy clothes for a baby are a waste of money.
chemical waste
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the risks from pollution and chemical waste
complete waste of time
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This is a complete waste of time .
domestic waste (= food, paper, glass etc that you throw out from the house )
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More domestic waste needs to be recycled.
garden waste (= grass, leaves etc that you have cut and do not want )
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The brown bin is for garden waste.
hazardous waste
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the disposal of hazardous waste
nuclear waste
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the problems of nuclear waste disposal
radioactive waste
radioactive waste
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the problem of how to dispose of radioactive waste
shocking waste
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a shocking waste of money
toxic waste
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a toxic waste dump
toxic waste
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fumes from a toxic waste dump
waste disposal (= getting rid of unwanted materials or substances )
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Most countries have improved their standards of waste disposal.
waste disposal
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the problem of radioactive waste disposal
waste dump
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an underground nuclear waste dump
waste fuel
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The booklet gives helpful tips on how to avoid wasting fuel.
waste ground (= land in a town that is not being used )
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They were standing on the waste ground behind the car park.
waste ground
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a piece of waste ground
waste money (on sth)
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Don’t waste your money on a computer that doesn’t have enough memory.
waste paper
waste product
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nuclear waste products
waste resources
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We cannot afford to waste our resources on fighting each other.
waste time
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You are wasting your time arguing with him.
waste your talents
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They felt their son was wasting his talents and his time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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In the North Sea, Greenpeace swimmers turned back dump ships carrying chemical wastes .
complete
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Borrowing lecture notes is often a complete waste of time because you've missed the impact.
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Look at Micky Deere, he's a complete waste of space.
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She said it was a complete waste of paint.
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It will either be a complete waste of time or you will find a real gem.
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Why would Wilko be even remotely interested in a complete waste of space like St-wart.
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Eventually, I realized the exercise was a complete waste of time.
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Firstly, this little episode exposes pre-nuptial contracts in this country to be the complete waste of paper they are.
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In my opinion, any attempt to reconcile the statements of principle in Lawrence and Morris is a complete waste of time.
dangerous
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Under that programme, they have been able to demonstrate ways of breaking up many dangerous industrial wastes .
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As it becomes more expensive to dump dangerous waste , so the economic advantages of shredding deteriorate.
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Underground bacteria could compromise the containers used to bury radioactive and other dangerous wastes .
domestic
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Biofuels include crops and trees, sewage and animal slurry, and industrial and domestic wastes .
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Recycle 60% of domestic waste by 2000.
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Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes.
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Plastics constitute 20 percent by volume of domestic waste in Britain.
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Energy for Waste Ten percent of domestic waste is currently being burned.
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Up to one tenth of our domestic waste is glass, all of which could be recycled without any deterioration in quality.
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Putrid domestic waste drips into the already festering canals.
hazardous
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It also believes strongly that there should be a ban on the import of hazardous waste into the United Kingdom.
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The quantity of hazardous waste sent out-of-state for treatment totals 252, 460 metric tons.
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This meets the growing need to improve geoscience knowledge relevant to strategies for subsurface disposal of hazardous and radioactive wastes .
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A majority of the industrial groups produce less than 10, 000 metric tons of hazardous waste .
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It is essential, therefore, that we proceed with great caution when handling toxic and hazardous waste .
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Trans-frontier shipments of hazardous wastes also comes under new controls.
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The Labour party believes that there are a number of essential approaches to toxic and hazardous waste .
human
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In it we can see reflected the ecological, psychological, spiritual damage and the massive human waste of this war.
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Nor should trash or debris or human wastes .
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It smelt not only of mud and rotting materials, but also the unmistakable odour of human waste .
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It either smelled like human waste or gar-bage or both mixed together, which it probably was.
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People would not wish to eat animals fed on human waste .
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The primary cause of the dreadful smell was the disposal of human waste .
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By bacteriological process, human waste is reduced to a purified liquid suitable for discharge.
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Toward that end, protesters stoned police, cursed them, even threw bags of human waste at them.
industrial
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From 1995, the dumping of all forms of industrial waste will be prohibited outside of territorial waters.
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Any industrial byproducts or waste can be used for this purpose.
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Biofuels include crops and trees, sewage and animal slurry, and industrial and domestic wastes .
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Councils were supposed to set up sites for industrial and domestic wastes; the Baldonnell site was to marshal other unsuitable wastes.
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Sewage sludge and industrial waste will still enter the North Sea from Britain until 1998.
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Far from being a resource, most farmers see slurry as just another form of industrial waste .
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Material suitable for deep sea dumping included sewage sludge, industrial waste , and toxic ashes left after the incineration of garbage.
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It was agreed to halt all depositing of industrial waste in international waters by 1995, including sub-seabed disposal of nuclear waste.
nuclear
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The United Kingdom does not reprocess nuclear waste; we do not even import nuclear waste.
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Congress has tried to find a site to bury high-level nuclear wastes for decades, with a notable lack of success.
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Containing nuclear waste Anti-nuclear campaigners sometimes claim that nuclear fission and its dangerous products are a purely manmade phenomenon.
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Nor can the market get rid of or store nuclear waste .
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This has been seriously assessed as a way of disposing of nuclear waste , but not toxic waste.
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For nuclear waste , disposal into space is more feasible but has been discounted on numerous occasions because of the risks.
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Depleted uranium, one of the hardest metals known, is classified as low-level nuclear waste .
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The dispute over nuclear waste is a hangover from the last hours of the Conservative government in 1997.
organic
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A plastic dustbin with breeding colony on to which organic waste is showered.
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That treatment system, which only removes organic waste , costs $ 41, 000 annually to operate and maintain.
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The prime culprit is organic farm waste , such as cattle slurry and silage, and even milk.
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Producing methane gas from landfill sites, sewage works and organic wastes is another extremely practical use of resources.
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The lagoons would be lined and filled with organic waste , after recyclable materials had been separated.
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Food, wood, the organic wastes of animals and plants are all forms of biomass.
radioactive
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Inside each drum was a designated quantity of radioactive waste .
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The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-level radioactive waste .
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The thought of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste being buried under their favourite stretch of countryside filled local residents with horror.
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Both radioactive fission products and induced radioactivity in structural materials contribute to the problem of radioactive waste .
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Sites are being selected for final disposal of radioactive waste .
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These secretive facilities house the deadly legacies of the Cold War: nuclear weapons, radioactive waste and toxic chemicals.
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In 1981 violent storms redistributed some of the plutonium, along with other radioactive wastes stored ashore.
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The process produces a much smaller volume of chemically inert radioactive waste than conventional ion exchange techniques.
solid
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Aluminium smelters are only one of a score of industries which now pollute the total environment with fluoride emissions and solid wastes .
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Dissolved metals form a solid waste .
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Last year solid waste totalled 227,000 tonnes but this is forecast to fall to 206,000 tonnes this year.
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For many years, solid waste was incinerated.
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The licensing of tip sites for the disposal of solid waste requires similar inspections.
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Their goal is to recycle all air, water and solid wastes using mechanical and chemical processes as well as plants.
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It is obvious from this that a family's solid wastes will not be adequate to meet their cooking needs.
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Another employee group studied problems in solid waste , where waiting time at the Energy Recovery Plant was delaying drivers every afternoon.
terrible
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He would have regarded mastication as a terrible waste of time.
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To us, coming from marketing backgrounds, this is a terrible waste of talent and effort.
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But it still makes me bitter and angry at the waste , the terrible waste of all that love I had.
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Inherent in all these schemes was the almost unanimous conviction that the Falls, undeveloped by man, represented a terrible waste .
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Lies are a terrible distraction and waste of a citizen's time.
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A terrible waste of time and money.
total
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And advances in technology have made congestion no longer a total waste of time.
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Distasteful, and a total waste of time.
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A total waste of the fantasy potential of the Illusochamber.
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Household waste accounts for perhaps 4% of the total waste produced in Britain.
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Perhaps this expedition did not have to be a total waste .
toxic
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It proposes a two-year ban on exports of toxic waste while the new technologies are being tested.
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Indeed, they see incineration as a solution to toxic waste whose usefulness should be employed on a greater range of materials.
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It is essential, therefore, that we proceed with great caution when handling toxic and hazardous waste .
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Even allowing for O'Donovan doing half as much business, this would mean 3000 tonnes of toxic waste leaving Ireland a year.
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Read in studio A man who's accused of dumping highly toxic waste into a river has been remanded on bail.
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There is still no provision for a national toxic wastes dump.
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We do not believe that the United Kingdom should import any toxic and hazardous waste .
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ReChem, for example, concentrates on extremely toxic waste .
■ NOUN
disposal
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Nuclear waste Disposal of intermediate level nuclear waste on land also presents a hazard.
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Discussions of future reactor safety should revolve about two critical issues: nuclear waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation.
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At present the local authority has no facilities for toxic waste disposal , which must be sent elsewhere.
household
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This year's investment amounting to £10 million, will focus on the potential of sorting household waste .
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In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting.
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The plant will generate up to 38 million megawatts a year from burning 400,000 tonnes of household waste .
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Organic household waste can be composted to make garden fertilizer.
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Dangerous items such as these should never have found their way into household waste .
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At present, 90 percent of all household waste is disposed of by burial in landfill sites.
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It is illegal to put large quantities of animal faeces in household waste for collection, so that idea is ruled out.
product
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In several instances hearths associated with workshop waste products were found, particularly for the production of glass beads and bronze jewellery.
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Octopuses are very delicate animals that are sensitive to nitrogenous and other waste products of fish.
■ VERB
deal
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Some countries did not have the facilities to deal with the wastes themselves and a ban might encourage indiscriminate dumping.
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That means councils are having to rethink the way they deal with waste .
dispose
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This has been seriously assessed as a way of disposing of nuclear waste , but not toxic waste.
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The nations augmented the prohibitions in 1993 with a voluntary moratorium on disposing of low-level radioactive waste .
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After recycling, we must find the safest way in which to dispose of the waste .
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Unable to dispose of the poisonous waste , the yeasts shut down and become dormant.
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Other provisions to provide incentives for states to dispose of the waste remained intact.
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Where toilet facilities are not available, dispose of human waste in a sanitary manner.
dump
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That Soviet ships dumped nuclear waste in the area has been suspected for many years.
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At first she dumped the garden waste , but she soon realized this would make excellent garden compost.
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What about the dumping of toxic waste ?
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On Thursday delegates approved a resolution calling for a two-year ban on dumping radioactive wastes in the sea.
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Activists have caught vessels dumping nuclear waste at sea, but most no longer sail.
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As it becomes more expensive to dump dangerous waste , so the economic advantages of shredding deteriorate.
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He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts.
produce
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Greenpeace is campaigning for the closure of all industries producing wastes containing organochlorides, including dioxins.
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Plants in the same general category produce different configurations of wastes , since they operate in the slightly different ways.
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Nuclear power carries the risk of accidents and produces radio-active waste which will pollute the environment for centuries.
recycle
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Give community recycling schemes financial support. Recycle 60% of domestic waste by 2000.
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The department is now advising other customers on how to recycle their waste .
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Ben Ord said the cost of attending the conference on recycling was a waste of money.
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So households have no incentive to minimise or recycle the waste they create.
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Nature has the capacity to recycle wastes and reconstitute them into new resources of concentrated material quality.
reduce
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One objective is to reduce waste by 50 percent by 1995, particularly substances harmful to the environment.
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The third priority is to use it more efficiently by improving irrigation, reducing waste , and so on.
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Nevertheless, work continues around the Group to reduce wastes of every kind.
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However, this reduces efficiency, wastes heat and causes a fire danger.
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Minimal packs: Some packaging is designed to reduce waste during manufacture.
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One such project was to have focused on reducing the toxic waste produced when making the plutonium core of nuclear missiles.
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To reduce wastes by 50 percent by 1995, using 1990 as the baseline year.
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We are therefore constantly looking for ways both to reduce the amount of waste we produce and to upgrade that which remains.
store
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The country lacked the technology to store the waste safely and it was threatening water supplies.
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They say it's irresponsible to store radioactive waste where it can be a public danger and a safety risk.
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The dump is intended to store low- and intermediate-level waste from the year 2005.
treat
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But instead of concentrating on treating waste , research was needed into fundamentally cleaner processes that conserved water and reduced waste.
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The United States sees it as an enormous proliferation risk that would be better treated as waste and buried.
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The cremation of dead pets, which are treated as clinical waste , was a revelation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't waste your breath
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Save your breath . He won't listen.
lay waste sth
waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter
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After all, it eventually produces waste matter .
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Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
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It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.
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It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
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Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
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The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.
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Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .
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You can improve your soil by adding organic matter .
wasted journey/trip/effort etc
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As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancing productivity.
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By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
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If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip, and Montgomery would not be amused.
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It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.
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Not a wasted journey, after all, but she was anxious to carry on.
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Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
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Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
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What a ridiculously wasted effort this was, Bill.
wasting asset
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My feeling, for what it's worth, is that they should be regarded as wasting assets.
wasting disease/illness
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A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation.
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Children have been born deformed and there are fears of genetic defects; many adults are suffering from wasting diseases.
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She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
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There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Industrial waste had leaked into the water supply.
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It's a good idea to recycle household waste .
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The committee will study the issue of waste in state spending.
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The costs of waste disposal are rising all the time.
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The government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad.
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the icy wastes of Antarctica
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Too much waste has been dumped into the North Sea.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it was also a mark of his belief that gossip was simply a waste of time.
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In the absence of domestic reprocessing facilities, waste is rapidly piling up in storage.
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Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life, and effectively found itself a conscience.
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Specially engineered vaults should be constructed so that the waste could be regularly monitored and, if necessary, retrieved.
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The Commission has already proposed establishing a compensation fund for damage caused by waste .
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The operation made financial and environmental sense by eliminating the need to use a hazardous waste site.
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The site is expected to begin receiving waste during the next few weeks.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
breath
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You know it and so do I. So don't waste your breath !
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Was there any point in even wasting her breath trying to convince him?
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Besides, something told her she'd be wasting her breath .
chance
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In a lively first half Paul Wilkinson wasted a good chance at the far post after 33 minutes.
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If you do waste time the chances are good that your debtor will go under and you will get nothing.
effort
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They did not want to waste their time, effort , money and future chances in taking on an impregnable President.
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As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancing productivity.
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He wasted no mental effort on the problem, for this morning he had more important matters on his mind.
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They build wasted time and effort into the very fabric of the organisation.
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What a ridiculously wasted effort this was, Bill.
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Traveling takes not only time but money, and wasted travel effort is demoralizing and damages the entire research effort.
energy
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Try to keep mealtimes positive and relaxed and don't waste time and energy forcing your child to eat.
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Incumbents busy raising money for the next election are not inclined to waste energy rehashing the rules of the last campaign.
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Unlike sharks, they don't waste energy preventing themselves from sinking.
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Most businesses today simply burn the emissions in a closed incinerator, wasting energy from the fire.
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They cover the construction of new plants, waste reduction, energy and resource conservation and recycling.
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I would not augment difficulties by protesting against them, as this only led to failure and wasted energy .
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He had a remote manner and didn't waste an atom of energy talking to anyone on the set except Zimmer.
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If disappointed, though, she wasted no energy on self-pity.
life
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Just don't waste yer life on worries, son.
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We can not afford to waste another life .
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I had wasted my life and Francis's.
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Without a plan you will end up going in circles and wasting your life away.
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Michael: Do you think he wasted his life and his talent?
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Such wasted lives , such terrible humiliations.
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There may be a feeling of having wasted life , with less hope of a new beginning.
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The whole world seems to be depressed, and in our need to escape, we are wasting our lives away.
lot
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Each search engine has its own quirks to lean-otherwise you'il waste a lot of time weeding through poor results.
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You need to be sensible about buying components for stock though, or you will probably just waste a lot of money.
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Insufficient knowledge of the latter can waste a lot of money.
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Any styling effort applied to sopping wet hair is usually unnecessary and wastes a lot of time.
minutes
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Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles?
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I've just wasted ten minutes trying to listen to a man's chest.
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Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre.
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She was angry they had wasted the precious minutes on stupid small talk.
money
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You need to be sensible about buying components for stock though, or you will probably just waste a lot of money .
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We told him he was wasting money .
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Insufficient knowledge of the latter can waste a lot of money .
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Normal government budgets encourage managers to waste money .
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The Government always says how careful it is not to waste taxpayers' money .
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Failed projects waste money that might have been better spent elsewhere.
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Don't waste time and money on house surveys until these questions have been examined thoroughly.
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The answer, if not excuse, is that wrestling might have wasted away without his money .
opportunity
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Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
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They pointed to the wasted opportunities .
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Not to mention wasted opportunity for the thousands of amputees better deserving of such an opportunity.
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The campaign does not want to waste the opportunity .
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All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord's.
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They paid dearly for wasting goalscoring opportunities .
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Then Wayne Bullimore wasted a great opportunity for Barnsley after he beat Gittens.
space
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Not much compared with a redundant commercial package wasting shelf space .
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But what impressed me most was the enormous amount of sheer wasted space everywhere I happened to glance.
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The last point could be put right, wasting more space , by adding a potential link field to every record.
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The result is vast amounts of wasted space .
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This book is not big enough to waste extra space writing out such a number.
talent
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Elizabeth: No, I don't, and I get very cross when people say that he wasted his talent .
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We wasted a source of talent and got Soviet-trained bureaucrats who had no idea what to do.
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Just because he went to Hollywood and was paid a lot of money doesn't mean he was wasting his talent .
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But because he was so likable and seemed to be wasting so much talent , teachers and counselors tried to help.
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How he'd changed and refused to go on and now was wasting his talent .
time
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So long as we learn something from every mistake we make, time hasn't been wasted .
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My fear that she would not recognize me was time wasted .
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Everything about her suggested that she had lots to do and no time to waste .
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Even with many processors working in parallel, much time is wasted waiting for sequential operations to complete.
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Presumably not much time will be wasted with recriminations since Wimbledon got those out of the way when they sacked Egil Olsen.
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A lot of otherwise productive time is being wasted debating the merits of each game.
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However I do not call that time wasted .
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There was no more time to waste .
■ VERB
afford
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He couldn't afford to waste even a minute of his allocated fifteen.
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We can not afford to waste another life.
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The current was taking the two boats down towards the rocks, so Harry Pascoe couldn't afford to waste time.
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I certainly couldn't afford to waste petrol chasing rainbows as far as Leeds and back.
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Still, since time was at a premium, she couldn't afford to waste it admiring her surroundings.
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In their impoverished mountain habitat, they can not afford to waste anything.
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Nevertheless, she can't afford to waste the earlier encounters.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't waste your breath
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Save your breath . He won't listen.
waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter
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After all, it eventually produces waste matter .
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Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
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It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.
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It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
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Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
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The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.
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Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .
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You can improve your soil by adding organic matter .
wasted journey/trip/effort etc
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As processes improve, it cuts out much of the wasted effort and rework, thus enhancing productivity.
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By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.
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If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip, and Montgomery would not be amused.
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It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.
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Not a wasted journey, after all, but she was anxious to carry on.
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Not that it was a completely wasted trip, what with the hardware store right next door.
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Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
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What a ridiculously wasted effort this was, Bill.
wasting asset
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My feeling, for what it's worth, is that they should be regarded as wasting assets.
wasting disease/illness
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A preacher, victim of a wasting illness, would refer in the pulpit to his forthcoming demise without shocking his congregation.
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Children have been born deformed and there are fears of genetic defects; many adults are suffering from wasting diseases.
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She will host the surprise get-together tomorrow as a thank you to the victims of a fatal muscle wasting disease.
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There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bill wastes all his money on beer and cigarettes.
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Don't leave the light on - you're wasting electricity.
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I wasted 40 minutes waiting for a bus this morning.
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I must have wasted two whole hours trying to fix this machine.
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Let's not waste any more time on this.
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Letting the water run while you brush your teeth wastes water.
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One of the men threatened to waste the bank teller if he didn't get the money.
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Sometimes she feels she's wasted her life.
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Stop wasting time. We have to finish this by five o'clock.
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The school kitchen wastes an awful lot of food.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Back in the United States, Alvin wasted no time in proposing ways of doing that on future modern dance tours.
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By fencing money into line items, in other words, we waste billions of dollars every year.
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He had a remote manner and didn't waste an atom of energy talking to anyone on the set except Zimmer.
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I felt enough time had been wasted, but time didn't seem to mean anything to Brando.
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She wasted no time in writing to me and commanding me to return home at once.
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The guests with a morning to waste until the ceremony at two o'clock got under everyone's feet.
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You actually hope the time and money spent on insurance will be wasted.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disposal
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I have never come across a people more obsessed with waste disposal .
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Although waste disposal sites are well controlled, there is an ever present risk of pollution.
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In recent years, most countries have tightened their standards of waste disposal .
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California is not alone in its pessimism over the future of waste disposal .
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It helps to get the lymph fluid - a vital part of the body's waste disposal system - flowing.
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The subsequent examination of potential releases from processes or waste disposal , together with environmental pathways is brief.
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It must also confirm that a suitable waste disposal facility will accept the shipment.
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In the process, it had simply underlined the almost intractable dangers of nuclear waste disposal .
ground
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Police had covered every piece of waste ground , undergrowth, field, wood.
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Tony did as he was told and finally saw the large area of waste ground ahead.
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His friend Andre Leota was later found shot dead on waste ground .
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Example Charles is the owner of a piece of waste ground adjacent to his house.
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He has used the waste ground to dump old cars, which he intends to renovate.
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The waste ground is separated from a park by some old fencing which is in need of repair.
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Their favourite walk was down across the waste ground along Deptford Creek.
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On his way across the waste ground he tripped over some rusty car parts and was injured.
heat
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The idea of recovering waste heat from air or water, and using it to heat buildings cheaply, is very attractive.
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They also produce less waste heat , so complex and expensive cooling systems are not needed.
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Wider use of waste heat will be encouraged and a 15 percent saving on the government energy bill sought by 1995.
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As electronic components become smaller and more powerful it becomes increasingly important to extract waste heat from them.
land
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In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors.
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The wound would immediately heal, the waste land become green, and the saving hero himself be installed as king.
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Punctured plastic bags blow across the adjacent plots of waste land .
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He promised to plant grasses on waste land .
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This place used to be what you could call a natural piece of waste land .
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Caravans stand on muddy plots of waste land .
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The market stretched across waste land scribbled out by tracks of vehicles.
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Lying amid waste land to one side of the village, there rose the jutting silhouette of a cyclopean wall.
material
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Thrush also arises as a means of unloading waste material from the body.
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Background: A New Jersey law banned the importation of waste materials from outside the state.
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However we want mandatory standards and specifications introduced to ensure appropriate waste materials are used where available, rather than higher grade primaries.
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Like anaerobic digestion, the aerobic processing of waste material produces methane which can be used as a biogas fuel.
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Even drawing up proposals for recycling waste materials in Britain requires ten sub-committees.
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Of course, this would be kept hidden under waste material .
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The waters off North Carolina host numerous fish, a potential biological vector for transport of waste materials .
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Some make combs of their waste material on which they cultivate tiny fungal mushrooms.
matter
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Stop feeding the fish, to cut down on the waste matter being produced.
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After all, it eventually produces waste matter .
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They do not feed on fish excreta and waste matter .
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He says that the travellers themselves are doing some clearing up, though some waste matter will be left behind.
paper
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Pitch fibre pipes are made from waste paper and other fibres soaked in pitch.
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She wiped it frantically on a piece of waste paper , and threw the crumpled paper as far away as she could.
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Was lying beside dustbins and boxes of waste paper , just inside the locked gates to the yard.
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The success of the system depends essentially on the segregation of waste paper for separate collection.
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Accumulations of waste paper are being collected and put into red polythene liners which are collected by the cleaners.
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Lily put them, unhesitatingly, in the waste paper bin.
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I have not found one cigarette end or one piece of waste paper .
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William I mean-today's newspapers will be lining tomorrow's waste paper bins.
product
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It is the biggest single concept, many others being devoted to using methane gas at waste product dumps.
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The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.
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The nitric acid solution is then mixed with an organic solvent and the uranium and plutonium are separated from the waste products .
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It is excreted in the urine as a waste product of creatine. 194.
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But this alone will not purify your water of waste products that are invisible to the eye.
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Elimination Elimination is the process by which waste products are excreted from the body.
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A two-way hatch facilitates the serving of carefully calculated meals and the removal of waste products in the appropriate receptacles!
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During the summer these may include small animals known as dinoflagellates, which produce toxic waste products .
water
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This could help solve one of the textile industry's biggest problems, removing colouring and chemicals from waste water .
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The waste water would be drained away through a 2, 000-foot tunnel, 150 feet below the river level.
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What happens to the overflowing water and also to the waste water?
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Urine is processed separately through a more stringent filtration process than the waste water .
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At the same time the air pump removes waste water and air from the separate condenser thus maintaining a vacuum in it.
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Some of the programmes developed have succeeded in removing up to 98 percent of the solids content of waste water .
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Even waste water from water changes is not allowed to go into our sewage system during this period.
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For alkaline waste water , higher concentrations can be determined by using appropriately stronger acid for titration.
yarn
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Unravel waste yarn after work has been removed from machine.
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The only patterns available were for hand knitting and no one had mentioned mock rib or using waste yarn .
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Cast on using the weaving brushes or waste yarn , then change to main yarn. 3.
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A scheme to measure the waste yarn has been introduced.
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Thread with waste yarn and knit 4 rows on the main bed only.
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I took the garment pieces off on waste yarn .
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Remove waste yarn , join second shoulder.
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Release waste yarn and hook up to jacket front in the usual way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't waste your breath
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Save your breath . He won't listen.
lay waste sth
waste/solid/organic/vegetable etc matter
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After all, it eventually produces waste matter .
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Because if they didn't, then all solid matter would simply turn to vapour.
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It tells you just about how much organic matter is present.
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It was the only solid matter they would meet this side of Jupiterstill two hundred million miles away.
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Some organic matter is needed in order to produce nice specimens.
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The quantity needed may, however, vary according to the quantity of organic matter in the raw water.
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Urban refuse is 75 percent organic matter .
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You can improve your soil by adding organic matter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a waste tank
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a sewage waste pipe
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beyond the rearing buildings the waste ground was empty.
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In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors.
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Inefficient recovery practices have left metal-rich waste dumps which have often been levelled or used as roadstone.
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Nor are waste dumps the only things being shaken-up.
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The waste form and the cannister should act as barriers for 1000 years each.
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The waters off North Carolina host numerous fish, a potential biological vector for transport of waste materials.