Grounds and Waste

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Grounds noun - Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.

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Waste and grounds are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Waste" instead a noun "Grounds".

Waste noun - An instance of spending money or resources without care or restraint.

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Grounds and waste are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grounds" instead a noun "Waste".

Between their fishing grounds ruined by factory ships and illegal waste dumping at sea and Somali warlords who obviously would kill them on a whim, piracy is depicted as the only way to survive.

Source: Film / Captain Phillips
The latter are occasionally used as dumping grounds for hazardous waste.

Source: Landfill Beyond the Stars
The genetically-engineered quaddies having been legally defined as "post-fetal experimental tissue cultures," Captain Bannerji refuses to fire on them on the grounds that it could be considered an act of hazardous waste disposal, for which the proper forms have not been filled out.

Source: Bothering by the Book

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