Tra từ waste - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

waste [waste wastes wasted wasting] verb, noun, adjective BrE [weɪst] NAmE [weɪst]
verb

NOT USE WELL
1. to use more of sth than is necessary or useful
•~ sth to waste time/food/energy
•~ sth on sth Why waste money on clothes you don't need?
• We got straight down to business without wasting time on small talk.
•~ sth (in) doing sth She wasted no time in rejecting the offer (= she rejected it immediately).
•You're wasting your time trying to explain it to him (= because he will not understand).
2. ~ sth (on sb/sth) to give, say, use, etc. sth good where it is not valued or used in the way that it should be
•Don't waste your sympathy on him— he got what he deserved.
•Her comments were not wasted on Chris (= he understood what she meant).
3. usually passive to not make good or full use of sb/sth
•~ sb/sth It was a wasted opportunity.
• His talents are wasted in that job.
•~ sb/sth as sth You're wasted as a sales manager— you should have been an actor.

KILL SB
4. ~ sb (informal, especially NAmE)to get rid of sb, usually by killing them

DEFEAT SB
5. ~ sb (NAmE, informal)to defeat sb very badly in a game or competition
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.

Example Bank:
•Don't waste your money on a hotel room.
•He didn't want to waste valuable time in idle gossip.
•Hurry up— there's no time to waste!
•I'm not going to waste any more time on the problem.
•In the end her efforts were not entirely wasted.
•Their father hated to waste energy.
•You're just wasting your breath. She never listens.
•Don't waste your sympathy on her— she got what she deserved.
•Her comments were not wasted on Chris.
•She wasted no time in rejecting the offer.
•The health authority wasted millions of pounds on a computer system that never worked.
•Why waste money on clothes you don't need?
•You're wasted as a sales manager— you should have been an actor.
•You're wasting your time trying to explain it to him.
Idioms: ↑lay something waste ▪ ↑lay waste something ▪ ↑waste not, want not ▪ ↑waste of space ▪ ↑waste your breath
Derived: ↑waste away

noun

NOT GOOD USE
1. uncountable, singular ~ (of sth) the act of using sth in a careless or unnecessary way, causing it to be lost or destroyed
• I hate unnecessary waste.
• It seems such a waste to throw good food away.
•I hate to see good food go to waste (= be thrown away).
•The report is critical of the department's waste of resources.
•What a waste of paper!
2. singular a situation in which it is not worth spending time, money, etc. on sth
• These meetings are a complete waste of time.
• They believe the statue is a waste of taxpayers' money.

MATERIALS
3. uncountable (also wastesplural)materials that are no longer needed and are thrown away
•household/industrial waste
•toxic wastes
•waste disposal (= the process of getting rid of waste)
4. (also ˌwaste ˈmatter)uncountable material that the body gets rid of as solid or liquid material
•The farmers use both animal and human waste as fertilizer.

LAND
5. wastesplural (formal)a large area of land where there are very few people, animals or plants
•the frozen wastes of Siberia

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.

Example Bank:
•If nobody comes all this food will go to waste.
•Industrialized countries continue to export their waste.
•More people are dumping waste illegally.
•The river was used for years as an industrial waste dump.
•The whole thing has been a complete waste of time.
•Three quarters of all construction waste was recycled.
•Tonnes of waste are produced every year.
•Try to avoid unnecessary waste.
•a ban on waste imports
•a criminal waste of public money
•a dump containing hazardous waste
•a tragic waste of human life
•a waste of energy/resources
•a waste processing plant
•an incinerator for burning hospital waste
•areas contaminated by industrial waste
•facilities for processing radioactive waste
•new regulations on the feeding of slaughterhouse waste to cattle
•technology to convert solid waste into renewable energy
•the best solutions for managing waste
•the frozen wastes of Antarctica
•the highly expensive task of cleaning up toxic waste
•the vast amounts of electronic waste being shipped to developing countries
•A removable hatch allows access to the waste pipes.
•Around four million tons of industrial waste are disposed of each year.
•I hate to see good food go to waste.
•The report is critical of the department's waste of resources.
•These meetings are a complete waste of time.
•They believe the statue is a waste of taxpayers' money.
•the disposal of toxic/radioactive wastes

adjective usually before noun

LAND
1. not suitable for building or growing things on and therefore not used
Syn: ↑derelict
• The car was found on a piece of waste ground.

MATERIALS
2. no longer needed for a particular process and therefore thrown away
•waste plastic
• Waste water is pumped from the factory into a nearby river.

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old Northern French wast(e) (noun), waster (verb), based on Latin vastus ‘unoccupied, uncultivated’.