0 present participle of wait
1 to allow time to go by, especially while staying in one place without doing very much, until someone comes, until something that you are expecting happens or until you can do something:
We can buy our duty-free while we're waiting at the airport.
It is not breakable and fragile like a belief waiting for the iconoclast's hammer.
The oral dose of propranolol was increased and the child was discharged with his name having been placed on the surgical waiting list.
Figure 1 illustrates the dramatic reduction in the times patients were waiting for radiotherapy treatment.
