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[ UK /wˈe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈweɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. wait before acting
    the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment
  2. look forward to the probable occurrence of
    She is looking to a promotion
    We were expecting a visit from our relatives
    he is waiting to be drafted
  3. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
    I had to wait on line for an hour to get the tickets
  4. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
    I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's
NOUN
  1. time during which some action is awaited
    instant replay caused too long a delay
    he ordered a hold in the action
  2. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
    the wait was an ordeal for him
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How To Use wait In A Sentence

  • Which of them will prefer football and which the ant nest, we'll have to wait and see.
  • We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited.
  • Maybe your parents are right about waiting a few more years until you decide.
  • Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready. 
  • There are a couple of girls waiting for you.
  • During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
  • He began placing some of the medicines back into the first-aid kit ‘Wait here, I'll be back in a few sec.’
  • Nancy and Andy bring in Stevie for an emergency pediatrician visit on "Weeds" (Showtime at 10), only to turn on the television in the waiting room and learn that the feds are a little too close to catching their family. TV highlights: Monday, Oct.18, 2010
  • She's been a bit edgy lately, waiting for the exam results.
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