adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
costs
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She is now liable for the wasted costs of her abandoned case - more than £1,000.
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And, in accordance with the rules, a transcript of any wasted costs hearing must be made. 3.
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All courtroom advocates of all kinds are susceptible to wasted costs orders.
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The judge started to discuss figures as to the wasted costs .
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Courts and judges must be alert to the problems which may arise in connection with wasted costs hearings and orders.
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The judge's wasted costs order must be quashed.
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A solicitor threatened with a wasted costs order must always be given an opportunity to make representations before an order is made.
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There were on each circuit panels of barristers prepared to advise and act on behalf of any barrister threatened with a wasted costs order.
effort
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It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.
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By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort . 4.
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The careful selection of the most logical buyers in order to reduce circulation size can therefore be a wasted effort .
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It would all be wasted effort , of course, if Balliol refused to be enticed out from Roxburgh Castle.
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Attempts to achieve sales without segmenting these markets would result in a great deal of wasted effort .
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If he thought he could manipulate her, he'd soon find out that it was a wasted effort .
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The price of all social improvement is effort , often wasted effort.
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This critique should not be understood to imply that experimental referential communication research is wasted effort .
journey
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Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
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Not a wasted journey , after all, but she was anxious to carry on.
time
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He was decisive and never wasted time on second thoughts.
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That she should have wasted time crying over him was not just amazing, it was incredible.
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He seldom wasted time wondering why people wanted other people dead.
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Time spent like this will not be wasted time.
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I walked back to the bar and wasted time with the barman.
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If the allies wasted time , the Soviet Union would establish effective control.
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And of course they will suffer consequences - at the very least those of wasted time and lost opportunities.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be wasted on sb
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The irony of the situation was not wasted on me.
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At seventy-three, her days were too short to be wasted on slumber.
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Compassion could only lead to increased confusion, for it would be wasted on her.
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He explained this with his usual tact, but tact was wasted on Mrs. Bidwell.
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Her effort was wasted on me.
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I fear your quaint down-home speech is wasted on me, my friend.
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It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.
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It must be a proper justification which shows that your time is not likely to be wasted on a low priority.
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Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I felt as if my education had been wasted when I couldn't get a job.
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She thought back over the past four years - four wasted years married to a man who almost destroyed her.
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The government could have dealt with the problem there and then. It was a wasted opportunity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Pembrooke had a wasted journey to Downpatrick yesterday.
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They clasped hers weakly and a smile flitted over the wasted features.