VERB
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work for or be a servant to
The minister served the King for many years
She attends the old lady in the wheelchair
Is a salesperson assisting you?
May I serve you?
Can you wait on our table, please?
How To Use wait on In A Sentence
- Now wait on a minute, I'm not suggesting anything even a wee bit subversive.
- One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below.
- On the 13th an entertainment was pro - vided on board the Batchelor for the Spanifh gentle - 1 men, to which 1 was carried, being not able to move myfeif, but was hoifled in a chair out of the fhip into the Batchelor -, where we agreed, that a de - putation fhould be lent from each fhip, to wait on the governor with a handfome prefent, in acknow - ledgement for his great civility, and the readinefs he expreffcd to fupply us. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
- They expect me to wait on them like a servant.
- With the advent of cable, all the good writing, you don't have to wait on a studio to be greenlit. Times, Sunday Times
- He might be a pipsqueak, but still, having a nine year old put his full wait on me isn't fun.
- I was finally deposited in a small and remote village and told to wait on a pavilion under a palm-thatched roof.
- I'm willing to wait one more week, and that's my final word on the subject.
- A twelve-bar blues: Once there was a garden, couldst thou not wait one hour? PASSION IN THE PEAK
- They wait on pin and needle for the football score.