0 an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbish in, especially paper:
Thereupon, he tore up his resignation papers and threw them in the wastepaper basket.
May we take it that that speech can now be forgotten and put into the wastepaper basket?
They do not want just another issue of millions of paper-backed books to go either on to the front room bookshelf or into the wastepaper basket.
Ours is a live constitution, perfectly capable of absorbing and flourishing upon anomalies which will live on long after those other constitutions have been thrown into the wastepaper basket.
Agnes is found in her room bleeding profusely, and in a wastepaper basket there is a dead baby with its umbilical cord wrapped around its neck.
People with such a mindset do not need to be persuaded too long before they jettison play-writing in the wastepaper basket of classical literature.
We did not intend to use pragmatics as a wastepaper basket.
If you try any other approach, your complaints end up in the wastepaper basket.
