Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wastebasket

1 sense of wastebasket

Sense 1
wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular file -- (a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish)
       => container -- (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))