What does food waste mean?

food waste means "food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)".

What is another word for food waste?

Close synonyms include garbage, refuse, scraps. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is food waste a common word?

food waste is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

food waste — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Synonymsgarbage refuse scraps
Broaderwaste

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What does food waste mean?: food waste means "food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)".
What is another word for food waste?: Close synonyms include garbage, refuse, scraps. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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