waste

IPA: wˈeɪst

Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
Excrement or urine.
A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
(historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
A vast expanse of water.
A disused mine or part of one.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
Gradual loss or decay.
A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
(rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
(law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
(geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.

(transitive) To devastate; to destroy.
(transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
(transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
(transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
(intransitive) To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
(intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
(law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.

Examples of "waste" in Sentences

This waste is the same for employer-based health insurance.
OK, if 13% admin waste is not enough to establish my point, then say 40%.
Presumably the cause of this waste is the government's democratic deficit.
Growing up, the expression "waste not, want not" was branded into my brain.
Do you think that over a £billion a year in waste is a good thing in this system?
During the decomposition process in the biodigester, the waste is also sterilized.
The disposal of this waste is a big problem and the waste leaves a huge carbon footprint.
Issa, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been especially critical of what he calls waste in Obama's economic stimulus spending.
We have the total waste of $225,496,741 and this, reduced to its actual significance, means that of the total actual terminations, 83.6 per cent. was _actual waste_ and only 16.4 per cent. legitimate terminations, while the great bulk of the last item of
Hopefully marvel does have a problem with this (hopefully it doesnt turn out to be something silly like an actual iron fist (tho i beleive it could work)) instead of ripping off a name why not just do a movie based on the actual character its still cool seems like a waste is all not to