wastagenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈweɪ.stɪdʒ/us/ˈweɪ.stɪdʒ/the amount that is wasted:
Water companies will have to cut down on wastage.
UK → natural wastage
UK US attrition the people who leave an educational or training course before it has finished:
The wastage rates on the degree courses are a cause for concern.
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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
- waste
- waste not, want not idiom
- wasted
- wasteful
- waster
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