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Synonyms for wait on
wait on
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Princeton's WordNet
serve, attend to, wait on, attend, assistverb
work for or be a servant to
"May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years"
Synonyms:
serve, process, aid, help, dish up, pay heed, answer, go to, dish out, function, look, attend to, take to heart, suffice, attend, service, take care, advert, assist, serve up, give ear, serve well, swear out, dish, do, see, hang
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wait on
Synonyms:
call uponwait on
Synonyms:
serve, lackey, attend (as a servant), accompany, minister to, wait upon, dance attendance on
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#47 | do | |
#64 | see | |
#76 | help | |
#97 | service | |
#431 | process | |
#446 | look | |
#853 | function | |
#1251 | answer | |
#1652 | aid | |
#2202 | serve | |
#2644 | assist | |
#3469 | dish | |
#3607 | attend | |
#5712 | hang | |
#9541 | advert | |
#20545 | suffice |
How to use wait on in a sentence?
William Congreve, The Mourning Bride:
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
We're coming up on zero hour for this crisis and it may well be that a number of investors will prefer to wait on the sidelines for the dust to settle.
If the Prime Minister is not able to persuade the EU nation states to give us the four-year wait on migrant benefits then it really will be trivial, my expectation is that by the time we get to February something will be offered which will be presented as a great success, but that it will still be inconsequential.
It made me feel like they thought Stephen was nobody, and that we didn’t matter. But I wasn’t giving up and somebody was going to listen. I was trusting in God to make something happen. I knew He was going to make something happen, just didn’t know when. I just had to wait on His timing.
Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe:
I absolutely knew that we couldn't wait on another agency to step up and we had to go check this out as soon as possible.
Translations for wait on
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- bíða eftir, þjóna til borðs, þjónaIcelandic
- לְשָׁרֵתHebrew
- esperePortuguese
- прислуRussian
- vänta påSwedish
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