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waiting
[ wey-ting ]
adjective
- serving or being in attendance:
waiting man;
waiting maid;
waiting woman.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- in waiting, in attendance, as upon a royal personage.
Example Sentences
They said October's budget "took difficult decisions on tax to stabilise the public finances, including the NHS which has now seen waiting lists fall five months in a row".
Some of us spend the first 18-ish years of our lives waiting until the day we can leave, headed toward someplace where we can feel free to be more like ourselves.
The PM pointed to increases in the minimum wage, falling NHS waiting lists and cuts to fuel duty as examples of the difference the government was making.
“We are really trying to get proactive here, instead of waiting, watching folks die,†said Daniel Tsai, director of the San Francisco Public Health Department.
That has been reduced to 48 hours because many patients were dying during the waiting period.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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