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View synonyms for wait on

wait on

verb

  1. to serve at the table of
  2. to act as an attendant or servant to
  3. archaic.
    to visit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


interjection

  1. stop! hold on!
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

“We are still waiting on the decision from President Trump and the campaign leadership on what their official decision is,” one Grenell ally told Politico on Tuesday morning.

From Salon

It’s been nearly a week since election day, and California is still counting ballots, imposing an agonizing wait on a nation wondering who will lead the next U.S.

But instead of stopping and waiting on the grid, as the rules require, Norris set off on a second formation lap, taking most of the rest of the field with him.

From BBC

“I’ve been waiting on this for a long time,” Greene said with a smile.

He said that while the deputies were questioning him at the ditch where his car was stuck, Polly was waiting on a nearby hillside where he had left her, alive.

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