wait on
/ˈweɪt ˌɑn/ verb- To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. · Is someone waiting on you yet?
- To wait for (a person). · I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
- To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). · I'm waiting on the light to change.
- To be in store for (someone).
- To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.
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So he would go to Lawson’s, where Samuel or his son would wait on him.
They had not been long together before Darcy told her that Bingley was also coming to wait on her; and she had barely time to express her satisfaction, and prepare for such a visitor, when Bingley’s quick step was heard on the stairs, and in a moment he entered the room.
It had been settled in the evening, between the aunt and niece, that such a striking civility as Miss Darcy’s, in coming to them on the very day of her arrival at Pemberley--for she had reached it only to a late breakfast--ought to be imitated, though it could not be equalled, by some exertion of politeness on their side; and, consequently, that it would be highly expedient to wait on her at Pemberley the following morning.
Bennet, “you will wait on him, of course.”
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