wastetime
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]wastetime (plural wastetimes) (rare)
- (derogatory) Something done to pass the time.
- 2005, Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (page 102)
- […] theatres were closed, novels contemptuously dismissed as 'wastetimes', and poets declared to be wantons; […]
- 2005, Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (page 102)
- The period of time that a product spends in the environment as waste, after it has been disposed of.
- 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, Growth and Its Implications for the Future: Hearing... (page 1791)
- We need longer useful lifetimes and short biodegradable wastetimes for products, if we are to minimize material-resource inputs and maximize recovery and reuse of wastes.
- 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment, Growth and Its Implications for the Future: Hearing... (page 1791)