waste paper

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   paper discarded after use

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Questions about waste paper

What does waste paper mean?

waste paper means "paper discarded after use".

Is waste paper a common word?

waste paper 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.