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▸  wait on PHRASAL VERB If you are waiting on something, you are waiting for it to happen, for example before you do or decide anything. [AM ] □ [V P n] Since then I've been waiting on events.

▸  wait up

1 PHRASAL VERB If you wait up , you deliberately do not go to bed, especially because you are expecting someone to return home late at night. □ [V P + for ] I hope he doesn't expect you to wait up for him. □ [V P ] Don't wait up.

2 PHRASAL VERB [usu imper] If you ask someone to wait up , you are asking them to go more slowly or to stop and wait for you. [AM , INFORMAL ] □ [V P ] I was running down the hill shouting, 'Michael, Michael, man, wait up'.

wait|er /we I tə r / (waiters )

1 N‑COUNT A waiter is a man who works in a restaurant, serving people with food and drink.

2 → see also dumb waiter

wai t|ing ga me (waiting games ) N‑COUNT [usu sing] If you play a waiting game , you deal with a situation by deliberately doing nothing, because you believe you will gain an advantage by acting later, or because you are waiting to see how other people are going to act. □  He's playing a waiting game. He'll hope to hang on until the pressure is off.

wai t|ing list (waiting lists ) N‑COUNT [oft on N ] A waiting list is a list of people who have asked for something which cannot be given to them immediately, for example medical treatment, housing, or training, and who must therefore wait until it is available. □ [+ for ] There were 20,000 people on the waiting list for a home.

wai t|ing room (waiting rooms ) also waiting-room N‑COUNT A waiting room is a room in a place such as a railway station or a clinic, where people can sit down while they wait.

wait|ress /we I trəs/ (waitresses , waitressing , waitressed )

1 N‑COUNT A waitress is a woman who works in a restaurant, serving people with food and drink.

2 VERB A woman who waitresses works in a restaurant serving food and drink. □ [V ] She had been working in a pub, cooking and waitressing. ●  wait|ress|ing N‑UNCOUNT □  She does a bit of waitressing as a part-time job.

waive /we I v/ (waives , waiving , waived )

1 VERB If you waive your right to something, for example legal representation, you choose not to have it or do it. □ [V n] He pleaded guilty to the murders of three boys and waived his right to appeal.

2 VERB If someone waives a rule, they say that people do not have to obey it in a particular situation. □ [V n] The art gallery waives admission charges on Sundays.

waiv|er /we I və r / (waivers ) N‑COUNT A waiver is when a person, government, or organization agrees to give up a right or says that people do not have to obey a particular rule or law. □ [+ of ] …a waiver of constitutional rights.

wake ◆◇◇ /we I k/ (wakes , waking , woke , woken ) The form waked is used in American English for the past tense. 1 VERB When you wake or when someone or something wakes you, you become conscious again after being asleep. □ [V ] It was cold and dark when I woke at 6.30. □ [V + to ] Bob woke slowly to sunshine pouring in his window. □ [V to-inf] She woke to find her dark room lit by flashing lights. □ [V n] She went upstairs to wake Milton. ● PHRASAL VERB Wake up means the same as wake . □ [V P ] One morning I woke up and felt something was wrong. □ [V n P ] At dawn I woke him up and said we were leaving.

2 N‑COUNT [usu sing, with poss] The wake of a boat or other object moving in water is the track of waves that it makes behind it as it moves through the water. □ [+ of ] Dolphins sometimes play in the wake of the boats.

3 N‑COUNT [usu sing] A wake is a gathering or social event that is held before or after someone's funeral. □  A funeral wake was in progress.

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