Wastefulness

Definition

waste /weÇst/ v ၁။ ~ sth (on sb/sth) ျဖဳန္းတီးသည္။ အလဟႆ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ waste time/food/electricity/energy ❍ Why waste money on clothes you don't need? ၂။ (esp passive) အခ်ည္းႏီွးျဖစ္သြားေသာ အလုပ္ကိုလုပ္သည္။ We had a wasted journey —they weren't there. ၃။ ~ sth (on sb) (esp passive) အလကားျဖစ္သည္။ အခ်ည္းႏီွးျဖစ္သည္။ Your humour is wasted (on them), I'm afraid. ❍ Good cooking is wasted on him; he doesn't care what he eats. ၄။ (usu passive) ရရိွသည့္ အခြင့္အေရးကို ေကာင္းစြာ အသံုးမခ်တတ္။ It was a wasted opportunity. ❍ She's wasted in her present job. n ၁။ [U, sing] ျဖဳန္းတီးမႈ။ ျပဳန္းတီးမႈ။ a waste of time/money/energy/effort ❍ The goods should be handled carefully to avoid waste. ၂။ [U] စြန္႔ပစ္ပစၥည္း။ nuclear/toxic waste ❍ A lot of household waste can be recycled. ❍ The kitchen is fitted with a waste disposal unit. ၃။ [C usu pl ] လူသူေလးပါးမေနႏိုင္ေသာ အရပ္။ ကႏၲာရ။ desert wastes ❍ the icy wastes of the Antarctic. adj ၁။ လူသူေလးပါးမေနေသာ (အရပ္)။ The stolen car was found on a piece of waste ground. ၂။ စြန္႔ပစ္သည့္၊ မည့္။ waste materials produced by the manufacturing process ❍ waste water. ❏ go to waste [ IDM ] အလကားပစ္လိုက္ရသည္။ I hate to see all that food going to waste. ❏ lay sth waste [ IDM ] ( rhet ) သံုးမရေအာင္ ပ်က္စီးသြား သည္။ land laid waste by war. ❏ waste away [ PHRV ] ခ်ံဳးက်သြားသည္။ ❏ waste-basket (also waste-bin ) n ( US ) = waste-paper basket ❏ waste one's breath [ IDM ] ေလကုန္ခံ၍ေျပာသည္။ They won't listen, so don't waste your breath. ❏ wasteful /-fl/ adj ျဖဳန္းတီးေသာ။ a wasteful use of energy/natural resources. wastefully /-fǝli/ adv, wastefulness n [U] ❏ waste not, want not [ IDM ] ( saying ) မျဖဳန္းမွ အသံုးရ။ ❏ waste paper n [U] စကၠဴစုတ္။ ❏ waste-paper basket ( Brit ) ( US waste-basket , waste-bin ) n အမိႈက္ျခင္း။ အမိႈက္ပံုး။ ❏ waste pipe n ေရဆိုးထုတ္ပိုက္။ ❏ waste product n စြန္႔ပစ္ပစၥည္း။ ❏ waster n ၁။ (often in compounds) ျဖဳန္းသူ။ …စား ေသာအရာ။ a time-waster ❍ Many household machines are great energy wasters. ၂။ ဘဝကိုျဖဳန္းပစ္သူ။ Compare wastrel ❏ wasting adj လံုးပါးပါးလိုက္ေသာ (ေရာဂါ)။

Examples

1. All this uneaten food – what a waste!
2. A campaign to increase efficiency and reduce waste in government departments
3. [waste of] : A waste of young talent
4. There was growing opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life.
5. [go to waste] : The cherries will just go to waste if we don’t pick them soon.
6. [a waste of time/money/effort etc] : It’s a waste of time trying to get her to change her mind.
7. They said a public enquiry would just be a waste of taxpayers’ money.
8. A bill was introduced to clean up toxic wastes from local factories.
9. A controversy over the storage of nuclear waste
10. Human waste (=substances that your body gets rid of when you go to the toilet)
11. The process recycles domestic waste to produce fertilizer.
12. The desert’s sandy wastes