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long wait

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meanings of longand wait


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long
adjective
uk /lɒŋ/ us /lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
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wait
noun[S]
uk /weɪt/ us /weɪt/
a period of time when you stay in one place until someone comes, or something happens, or until you can ...
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Examples of long wait


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Pharmacological intervention by the clinician resulted in a long walk to pharmacy and often a longwait for the medication.
It is rather a longwait for each pair!
As the eldest daughter, her labor probably was highly valued at home, and she might have expected a longwait for initiation.
Although some authorities will make a contract on request for a selffunder who has been assessed as needing a care-home, there may be a longwait.
Nieuhoff used the longwait to draw the imperial courtyard and the other foreign delegations.
It has meant that companies were generally obliged to hire local tax consultants and endure a longwait for refunds.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
In the age of the media, which always yearns for constant and continuous activity, public support for a longwait is difficult to achieve.
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Some people are too proud or too independent; others cannot cope with the interminable form-filling and questions, the longwait— the whole degrading exercise.
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There can also be a longwait for surgery, especially as the disfigurements involved, although horrific, are not life-threatening.
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We know that we will have a longwait before we see any political changes in this country.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
That seems to me to be a very longwait.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
So, it has been a longwait, and the hopes expressed by our peoples have built up throughout this longwait.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
What seems like a longwait is but a short time in comparison with the years of training that our armed forces have to undertake.
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Unless the driver is to settle down for a longwait, he has to back out because there is no way of getting round.
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These farmers have the worry of a longwait before compensation is paid, and at the moment there is no provision for hardship payment.
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If he is inviting me to vote with him to abolish expenditure control, he will have a longwait.
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This unfortunately meant a longwait for some applicants.
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They feel aggrieved at the longwait they are having for what they regard as a just demand.
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As has been said, we have had a very longwait.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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