wait

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to wait
waitWe need to wait in line for the tickets.
wait forWe're waiting for the bus.
awaitWe are awaiting the committee's decision.
stayStay there until I get back.
remainPlease remain in your seats until the plane has come to a complete stop.
hang onHang on, I'll be ready in a minute.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Waiting
backlogged
bang around
breath
hang
hang around
hang on
hover
lounge
lurking
mark timeidiom
mill
mill around
pendency
sit
twiddle
twiddle your thumbsidiom
wait
wait and seeidiom
wait around
wait for someone/something

await | American Dictionary

await
verb[ T ]
us/əˈweɪt/
to wait for or be in the future of someone or something:
The two men are awaiting trial, scheduled to begin next month.
There are no jobs awaiting those farmers.

Examples of await

await
Some of the present results await theoretical explanations and suggest directions for further research.
Screening for prostate cancer continues to be debated and the results of large randomized trials are awaited.
Due to the backlog of patients awaiting appointments, most people wait a few weeks or even months for a specialist consultation.
Maturation is complete when the second meiotic division is arrested at metaphase where the egg will await fertilisation.
Of 11 patients not yet repaired, 2 are considered irreparable because of inadequate distal pulmonary arteries, 3 await unifocalization, and 6 are candidates for repair.
We anticipate that many of these questions may find affirmative answers, but these answers will have to await future research.
Reports on the next phase of an unusually rigorous research project will be eagerly awaited.
Our understanding of the neural underpinnings of theory of mind awaits the development of a computational account of the cognitive mechanism.
To see this, suppose that two tasks have been created, and both must be awaited.
Bodies physical never need be taken for granted as a priori facts merely awaiting archaeological, or any other, confirmation.
A well-grounded alternative must await much more laborious research.
He suggests that such recognition had to await the welfare analyses following from the 1931 census and welfare programmes developed in the decades thereafter.
Further analysis of the movement's specific ideas and impact must await future publications.
The expression is like a blueprint which awaits interpretation.
Such attempts would have to await the emergence in the 1970s of a coherent set of theoretical perspectives and goals in the area.
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