Usually means: Stay in place until later.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. wait: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wait: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wait: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wait: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wait: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wait, wait: Wordnik
  7. wait: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Wait, wait: Wiktionary
  9. wait: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wait: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wait: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wait: Dictionary.com
  13. wait (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wait: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Wait: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wait: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wait: Rhymezone
  19. wait: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wait: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wait: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. wait: Free Dictionary
  23. wait: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wait: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Wait: World Wide Words
  26. wait: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wait (disambiguation), wait: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wait (disambiguation), wait: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. WAIT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. wait: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wait, the wait: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
verb:  (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
verb:  (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
verb:  (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
verb:  (obsolete, except in phrases) To watch with malicious intent; to lie in wait
verb:  (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
noun:  A delay.
noun:  An ambush.
noun:  (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
noun:  (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
noun:  (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (computing) Short for wait state. [(computing) Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a specific task) until an I/O operation completes, or until an interrupt is resolved.]

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