wastetime
nounEtymology From waste + time.
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Derogatory, Rare Something done to pass the time.
- […] theatres were closed, novels contemptuously dismissed as 'wastetimes', and poets declared to be wantons; […]2005, Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, page 102:
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Rare The period of time that a product spends in the environment as waste, after it has been disposed of.
- We need longer useful lifetimes and short biodegradable wastetimes for products, if we are to minimize material-resource inputs and maximize recovery and reuse of wastes.1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, Growth and Its Implications for the Future: Hearing..., page 1791: