Usually means: Serve or attend to someone.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. wait on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wait on: Merriam-Webster
  3. wait on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wait on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wait on: Vocabulary.com
  6. wait on: Wiktionary
  7. wait on: Dictionary.com
  8. wait on: Phrasal Verb Page
  9. wait on: FreeDictionary.org
  10. wait on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. wait on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. wait on: Rhymezone

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wait on: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wait on: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wait on: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (wait on)

verb:  To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
verb:  (colloquial) To wait for (a person).
verb:  (colloquial) To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place).
verb:  To be in store for (someone).
verb:  (archaic) To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony.
verb:  (archaic) To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something).
verb:  (archaic) To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.).
verb:  (falconry, of a hawk) To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.
verb:  (colloquial, US, archaic) To court (someone).
verb:  (archaic) To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone).

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