Wait on

verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    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?"

  2. 2
    work for, or be a servant to wordnet
  3. 3
    To wait for (a person). colloquial

    "I'm waiting on you before we can leave."

  4. 4
    To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). colloquial

    "I'm waiting on the light to change."

  5. 5
    To be in store for (someone).

    "the destruction that waits on Monarchs, who consider fidelity to them as the most degrading of all vices"

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  1. 6
    To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony. archaic

    "In the Evening our Commander sent a Message to Mr. Jones, that if a Visit would not be troublesome he would wait on him."

  2. 7
    To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something). archaic

    "that ruine which waits upon such a supine temper"

  3. 8
    To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.). archaic

    "Aaron and his sons […] shall wait on their priest’s office:"

  4. 9
    To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.
  5. 10
    To court (someone). US, archaic, colloquial
  6. 11
    To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone). archaic

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