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: --
A waiting list database application was developed to book patients in the correct order of priority and within target waiting times.
A national audit of waiting times for radiotherapy.
All three countries are currently making extensive efforts to collect and publish waiting time prognoses and quality data.
This extremely rich chemistry is still waiting for the discovery of nitrogen-containing species.
A large proportion of each hunting season was simply spent waiting for the correct conditions.
As was mentioned earlier, newcomers who buy supplemental insurance must bear a waiting period, which is expected to discourage moves.
Many of the states are not waiting until the issue is resolved at the federal level and are developing their own approaches.
Instruments were generally administered in the waiting room by research assistants prior to consultation.
