waiting
/ˈweɪtɪŋ/ noun A1- The act of staying or remaining in expectation. · Waiting for any news in a waiting room. (gerund)
- Attendance, service.
Plural waitings
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I am quite ready; it is you for whom I am waiting.”
Sorrowfully Dorothy left the Throne Room and went back where the Lion and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were waiting to hear what Oz had said to her.
At the door he met the commissary of police, who was waiting for him.
Everybody talked at once, without waiting for a reply and each one seemed to be contented with expressing his or her own thoughts.
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