waste material

Questions about waste material

What does waste material mean?

waste material means "any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted".

What is another word for waste material?

Close synonyms include waste, waste matter, waste product. 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 waste material a common word?

waste material 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.