wasteground

plural wastegrounds · alternative waste ground · alternative waste-ground

1. countableuncountableA barren stretch of ground; wasteland.

   He was crawling across the wasteground on the far side of the perimeter fence.

   1994, D W Hartnett, Black Milk

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   But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it.

   1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights

   The uniform was leading them across the wasteground, where one side of a great black square of tenements had been demolished.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18