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multi-(dictionary)
multi-(medicine)
multi-CSF(medicine)
multi-faith(dictionary)
Multi Track(law)
Multi-Way Pot - Poker(gambling)
multi-ethnic(dictionary)
multi-infection(medicine)
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waste 1, noun (oh) and multi- (medicine)


waste 1, noun (oh)



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1 ?bad use?
2 go to waste
3 be a waste of time/money/effort etc
4 ?unwanted materials?
5 a waste of space
6 ?land?
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[Sense: 1-5; Date: 1200-1300; Origin: WASTE2]
[Sense: 6; Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old North French; Origin: wast, from wast (adjective); WASTE3]
?BAD USE?
[singular, U] when something such as money or skills are not used in a way that is effective, useful, or sensible
waste of
::Being unemployed is such a waste of your talents.
::Many believe that state aid is a waste of taxpayers' money.
:: What a waste of all that good work!
::excessive waste in state spending
go to waste
if something goes to waste, it is not used
::Don't let all this Food go to waste.
be a waste of time/money/effort etc
to be not worth the time, money etc that you use because there is little or no result
::We should never have gone - it was a total waste of time.
?UNWANTED MATERIALS?
[U] unwanted materials or substances that are left after you have used something
::The emphasis now is on recycling household waste .
industrial/chemical etc waste
::proposals to end the dumping of industrial waste into rivers and seas
::waste pipes
::The disposal of hazardous waste is a serious problem.
a waste of space
spoken someone who has no good qualities
?LAND?
wastes [plural] literary a large area of land where there are very few people, plants, or animals
wastes of
::the icy wastes of Antarctica
icy/frozen/snowy etc wastes
-see also waste ground , wasteland

multi- (medicine)


multi-
Many, properly joined only to words of L. Derivation.

See: pluri-.

Compare: poly-.

Origin: L. Multus, much