wait on

Definitions

1. 1

   To provide a service to (someone)

   To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.

   • Is someone waiting on you yet?
   • How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait on myself, must I?
   • […] for such a large house there are very few servants, because master has never lived here much; and when he does come, being a bachelor, he needs little waiting on:
2. 2

   To wait for (a person).

   • I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
   • Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:
   • Be pleased to write to me by Rogers; who will wait on you for your answer, at your own time.
3. 3

   To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place).

   • I'm waiting on the light to change.
   • […] a time was coming […] when his waiting on events should have its reward.
   • […] with grass mats over their heads and the raindrops puddling in their footprints, [they] waited on the weather.
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   1. 4

      To be in store for (someone).

      • the destruction that waits on Monarchs, who consider fidelity to them as the most degrading of all vices
      • Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown.
   2. 5

      To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony.

      • In the Evening our Commander sent a Message to Mr. Jones, that if a Visit would not be troublesome he would wait on him.
      • The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form.
      • […] I went, as my custom was, into one of the best railroad carriages on the road. […] I was soon waited upon by the conductor, and ordered out;
   3. 6

      To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something).

      • that ruine which waits upon such a supine temper
      • For Blessings ever wait on virtuous Deeds; And tho’ a late, a sure Reward succeeds.
      • What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
   4. 7

      To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.).

      • Aaron and his sons […] shall wait on their priest’s office:
   5. 8

      To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.

   6. 9

      To court (someone).

   7. 10

      To obey and pay attention to (someone)

      To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone).

The neighborhood

• neighborwait
• neighborwait on hand and foot
• neighborwait on tables