<span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span>...
equivalent to <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> + -ing. <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> Your guest has been <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> you. (progressive) They hurried into the <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> car....
<span class="searchmatch">wait</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> (third-person singular simple present waits <span class="searchmatch">for</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">waited</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span>) To <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> until the...
<span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> list (plural <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> lists) An ordered list of people <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> to obtain a good or service. He is still on the <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> list <span class="searchmatch">for</span> public housing....
<span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> game (plural <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> games) (idiomatic) A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances...
wait <span class="searchmatch">for</span> the other shoe to drop <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> list <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> maid <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> move <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> room <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> staff <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> to happen <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> in the wings <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>-list <span class="searchmatch">wait</span> on...
also: <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span>-room <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span>-room (dated) <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> room (plural <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> rooms) A room in a public place <span class="searchmatch">for</span> people to <span class="searchmatch">wait</span>. Hyponyms: ladies' room, (<span class="searchmatch">for</span> women...
up) To stay awake <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> <span class="searchmatch">for</span> somebody to return. 1980, Joe Garner, Never Fly Over an Eagle's Nest, page 66: Anyway, Dad <span class="searchmatch">waited</span> up <span class="searchmatch">for</span> them. It must have...
<span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> maid (plural <span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> maids) (historical) A lady's female servant. Synonym: maid-in-<span class="searchmatch">waiting</span> 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction[1]: As she...
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