Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 5 compound words that contain waiting. The most common are listed below. Open waiting in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 60
- waiting listAn ordered list of people waiting to obtain a good or service.
- waiting roomA room in a public place for people to wait.
- lady-in-waitingA lady, often a noblewoman, in the household of a queen, princess, or other woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant, generally a role considered an honour.
- waiting to happenBound to happen; almost certain to occur in the future.
- waiting periodA certain amount of time of required delay before some other action is allowed.
- Still Waiting
- call waitingA telephone service allowing a subscriber to accept a second incoming call by placing an ongoing call on hold, and to switch between such calls.
- waiting listsplural of waiting list: An ordered list of people waiting to obtain a good or service.
- waiting timeThe total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU.
- waiting timesplural of waiting time: The total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU.
- waiting areawaiting room
- waiting gameA strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor.
- waiting staffCollectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant.
- ready and waitingAlready prepared for action or use.
- waiting moveA move that is not tactical except in that it puts the burden to move on the opposing player.
- ladies-in-waitingplural of lady-in-waiting: A lady, often a noblewoman, in the household of a queen, princess, or other woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant, generally a role considered an honour.
- waiting in the wingspresent participle and gerund of wait in the wings
- waiting roomsplural of waiting room: A room in a public place for people to wait.
- waiting periodsplural of waiting period: A certain amount of time of required delay before some other action is allowed.
- waiting and seeingpresent participle and gerund of wait and see
- waiting maidA lady's female servant.
- lord-in-waitingA male peer who holds office in the royal household of the sovereign of the United Kingdom.
- waiting a minutepresent participle and gerund of wait a minute
- waiting aroundpresent participle and gerund of wait around
- waiting gamesplural of waiting game: A strategy or course of action in which one or more parties refrain from direct action until circumstances change in their favor.
Compound words 5
- nonwaitingNot waiting.
- waitinglySo as to wait; hesitatingly or loiteringly.
- outwaitingpresent participle and gerund of outwait
- overwaitingpresent participle and gerund of overwait
- reawaitingpresent participle and gerund of reawait