Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "waste ground".
John hurried across the ugly acre of waste ground behind the store, stepping over a broken crate and weaving his way between a rusty incinerator and a pile of even rustier machine parts.
Standing in the middle of the trash-littered, weedy waste ground was a sign.
Ahead and below ran a shallow crevice which reached almost to the edge of the waste ground.
A hundred meters of waste ground lay between the field and the nearest buildings.
They're sitting on a small patch of waste ground next to a fruit stall, talking to someone.
The police were called, and they searched all the waste ground behind the house and watched it day and night.
The fire had been built on a piece of waste ground that was divided from the road by a low wall.
At its end there was a piece of waste ground, separated from the road by a barbed-wire fence.