waste of material

1. 1.

   a useless consumption of material

   Broaderwaste

Questions about waste of material

What does waste of material mean?

waste of material means "a useless consumption of material".

Is waste of material a common word?

waste of 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.