wasteground
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
wasteground (uncountable)
- A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.
- 1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights:
- But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it.
- 1994, D W Hartnett, Black Milk:
- He was crawling across the wasteground on the far side of the perimeter fence.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18:
- The uniform was leading them across the wasteground, where one side of a great black square of tenements had been demolished.