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unwastefully en · ADV

Etymology

From un- + wastefully.

Meanings

1. Not wastefully, in a way that avoids waste.
   • The phone’s light dimmed unwastefully and went out: he lit it again, ran it quickly round. 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, London: Picador, Five, 2:
   • That all Copies of Bills, Answers, Depositions, or other Record, or thing whatsoever belonging to the Six Clerks to Copy, shall contain fifteen lines at the least in every sheet of paper, written fairly, and orderly, and unwastefully […] 1661, Edward Hyde, Harbottle Grimston, “Examination of Witnesses”, in A Collection of […] Orders Heretofore Used in Chancery with […] Alterations and Additions Thereunto, London: Henry Chase, page 34:
   • […] a system which […] sees how labour can be freed from its present fetters, and organized unwastefully, so as to produce the greatest possible amount of wealth for the community and for every member of it […] 1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 115:

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