Usually means: Remain in place expecting something.
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  1. wait around: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wait around: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. wait around: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (wait around)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome.

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