wasternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈweɪ.stər/us/ˈweɪ.stɚ/informal disapproving a person or thing who wastes something:
He's a time waster.
This project is nothing but a money waster.
UK informal disapproving a person who does nothing positive with their life, making no use of their abilities or the opportunities that are offered to them:
There were the usual bunch of wasters hanging round the bar.
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Wasting
- boondoggle
- dissipate
- down the drain idiom
- fritter
- fritter sth away
- lose
- misspend
- piss sth away
- prodigal
- profligate
- reinvent
- reinvent the wheel idiom
- throw
- toss
- toss sth away
- wastage
- waste
- waste not, want not idiom
- wasted
- wasteful
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People of little importance