Wastage
noun
The act of wasting something, or the amount of something that is wasted.
The company is trying to reduce wastage of resources.
Often appears as...
- reduce wastage
- resource wastage
noun
Loss or reduction in value, quantity, or quality.
Wastage in the retail sector amounts to billions each year.
Often appears as...
- financial wastage
- wastage of products
noun
Loss or attrition of a workforce.
Worker wastage has increased due to poor working conditions.
Often appears as...
- worker wastage
- staff wastage
noun
The act of wasting something, or the amount of something that is wasted.
The company is trying to reduce wastage of resources.
Often appears as...
- reduce wastage
- resource wastage
noun
Loss or reduction in value, quantity, or quality.
Wastage in the retail sector amounts to billions each year.
Often appears as...
- financial wastage
- wastage of products
noun
Loss or attrition of a workforce.
Worker wastage has increased due to poor working conditions.
Often appears as...
- worker wastage
- staff wastage
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Usage in Sustainability
Wastage often refers to resources like water, energy or materials being used inefficiently in environmental contexts.
Environmental groups campaign against water wastage.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Wastage usually implies unintentional or careless loss, often associated with neglect or a lack of awareness.
Food wastage at school cafeterias is a growing concern.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoidable Loss
'Wastage' suggests that the loss could be prevented with better management or planning.
Companies are implementing strategies to minimize packaging wastage.
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Nature's smallest...
is cast from this, leaving four carbons behind. But there's no wastage here. Those are soldered to a fourth G3P molecule, making a seven carbon chain. Added to a fifth G3P molecule, a ten carbon chain is created,
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Yuval Noah Harari: The...
Such examples can be multiplied. But you get the picture. The money is there. Of course, collecting taxes, stopping food wastage and slashing subsidies is easier said than done,
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Goat Fetus PIPE Rare Foods
the main caucus is sent the mutton shops but the spare parts are sold here there's no wastage whatsoever although selling and buying kudi pie is not
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Grow your food in the...
food available it's food affordable is there food wastage if food is not available
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Nature's smallest...
is cast from this, leaving four carbons behind. But there's no wastage here. Those are soldered to a fourth G3P molecule, making a seven carbon chain. Added to a fifth G3P molecule, a ten carbon chain is created,
Video examples
Yuval Noah Harari: The...
Such examples can be multiplied. But you get the picture. The money is there. Of course, collecting taxes, stopping food wastage and slashing subsidies is easier said than done,
Video examples
Goat Fetus PIPE Rare Foods
the main caucus is sent the mutton shops but the spare parts are sold here there's no wastage whatsoever although selling and buying kudi pie is not
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Grow your food in the...
food available it's food affordable is there food wastage if food is not available
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Emirati Statesman
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.
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Andrew Dominik
New Zealander Director
For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.
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Bruce Lee
American Actor
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
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Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.
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J. Carter Brown
American Public Servant
I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
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Ranvir Shorey
Indian Actor
There is such wastage of money in masala films!
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Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Emirati Statesman
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies.
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Andrew Dominik
New Zealander Director
For me, the movie's always evolving as I'm doing it. I throw things in as we shoot, and I take things out as we go. I want to create a whole life and then select the pieces that best sort of describe it later, you know? So there's a lot of wastage when I make a film.
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Bruce Lee
American Actor
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
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Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives.
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J. Carter Brown
American Public Servant
I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
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Ranvir Shorey
Indian Actor
There is such wastage of money in masala films!
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