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  • noun Plural form of waster.

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Examples

  • Grow your own-Actually not a bad idea … One of the reasons that so many people are idle wasters is that they have never received the life skills necessary to survive. .when I was at school the less able were put on CSE gardening courses which taught them the practical skills necessary to feed a family … there were veg and fruit plots.

    Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Refusing to cooperate with time-wasters is completely rational.

    Who is pulling the strings? | Serendipity 2010

  • Can it be wondered at that England's prestige is seriously injured when so many of the "wasters," and worse, are sent from the country?

    Argentina from a British Point of View Various

  • The "wasters," some hundred and fifty of them, with half a dozen stockmen mounted on the best horses of the place told off for them, were released from their enclosure in a state of frenzied desperation, and, with much cracking of whips and yells, mustered into a herd and driven across the plain in the direction of the road.

    Seven Little Australians Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

  • Both of them are, if not exactly spendthrifts, "wasters," very mainly through careless and excessive generosity.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • She never makes a masterpiece but she smashes a million 'wasters' without a care.

    The Crack of Doom Robert Cromie 1881

  • Mind you, that same government's cunning ploy to increase its listenership by about a third of a million extra unemployed 'wasters' is a bit dubious.

    Politics.ie uriah 2010

  • So raising the cost of fees will do nothing but ensure more of the "wasters" get to go to university as they will be the few who can afford it, while the potential students who are willing to learn and earn a degree will either not be able to afford it or not be able to get a place as its full of "wasters".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • It is the latter type of students who tend to be as you refer to as "wasters", i know from first hand experience.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Strangely, those most recently out of their teens thought the Kevins and Perrys of the world were 'wasters'.

    Home 2010

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