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Wait meaning
To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. | To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. | To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
Synonyms of Wait
Example sentences (20)
He had to wait and wait and wait for a buddy to come to his aid.
There is an average two-year wait time to get into a public housing unit, though the statement said that includes both ends of the “wait time spectrum” and most clients wait for a unit for less than two years.
Oliver's eager anticipation shone through with his comment: "Can't wait to see you", receiving an equally excited response from Megan: "Can't wait to, can't wait to build the nursery".
Wait, wait, wait, good on him for doing a middle school science project?
Wait, wait, wait…so the Tennessee Titans new offensive coordinator is the son of a billionaire, who’s dad just so happens to run one of the biggest sponsors of the NFL, and that company is based in Memphis, Tennessee?
Wait, wait, wait for it— ahhh, yassss….
All the Packers have to do is wait until the Jets increase their offer, or wait until Rodgers retires.
Alternatively, Nintendo may wait to increase the prices of its other games until it introduces the inevitable Tears of the Kingdom price increase isn't even official yet, so fans will have to wait for see what happens.
Another concern is the “wait-and-see” approach to technology adoption, as 40 percent of respondents reported that they prefer to wait until technologies are more established and proven in the market before adopting them.
However, she said he had also left the jurisdiction, which left the victim to “wait and wait for the wheels of justice to turn to finality” and remarked that this would have added to her distress and anxiety.
In one case in the Western Isles in June this year, a purple risk patient had to wait 66 minutes, while another in Grampian in May had to wait more than 59 minutes.
It’s often far more convenient to buy games digitally so you simply wait for them to download rather than need to head to a store or wait for delivery.
One of these commands will be the wait command, allowing players to wait to pass the time in the game.
She noted that wait times have also increased due in part to the pandemic and agreed that more needs to be done about wait times for other services.
The average wait for an ambulance last year was 14 minutes while in the NHS in England more than 40% of crews were forced to wait at least half an hour to hand over patients in the week up to 1 January.
The future can wait but Blaney’s wait is over.
The wait between the debut was 13 years, so a three-year wait for the third installment will come as a relief to audiences.
They also added that despite claims of long wait lists, in the past year there were no wait lists for initial appointments at the centre.
Travelers must wait four hours before going through TSA security to wait at their flight gates.
Unfortunately, we all still have 36 days to wait before 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is released, but there is no doubt that it’ll be absolutely worth the wait.