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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A WIDOW who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her.
Bennet, “you will wait on him, of course.”
“Well, all I know is, that it will be abominably rude if you do not wait on him.
So he would go to Lawson’s, where Samuel or his son would wait on him.
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