0 made to be destroyed after use:
2 throwaway goods, products, etc. are designed and marketed in a way that encourages people to keep replacing them:
Much of China's emissions come from manufacturing throwaway products for the west.
A fundamental change in consumer attitudes to the throwaway culture is the only way forward.
3 used to describe a price that is very low:
Analysts warned that expecting to buy hi-tech products at increasingly throwaway prices would eventually cause us all problems.
4 used to describe something that someone says without thinking carefully about whether it might be offensive to anyone:
throwaway comment/remark He faced disciplinary action because of a throwaway comment about a colleague.
5 the modern world in which many goods are disposable and create waste:
The developed world has become an increasingly throwaway society.
Despite its throwaway appearance, this exhibition is a subtle, sophisticated provocation.
An ordinary, throwaway line becomes something extraordinary which allows us greater insight.
Despite a throwaway ending that does not really come off, as a festive concert overture this is, in modern political parlance, thoroughly 'fit for purpose'.
If he gave the three comedies we now choose to call 'mature' his most throwaway titles, they aren't throwaway plays.
Every dealer put his throwaway leads in it, only their leader occasionally forced them to contribute dealable ones.
As a kind of throwaway book, the term "paperback" is provocative as a description of what she is reading.
The recapitulation introduced a fleeting nocturnal, sinister mood and a peremptory, throwaway ending complemented the opening joke.
He was a "throwaway" person.
