Synonym: defer, delay, linger, postpone, procrastinate, put off, shelve, stay, table, tarry. Similar words: await, wait on, wait for, awaiting, waist, trait, portrait. Meaning: [weɪt] 
n. 1. time during which some action is awaited 2. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something). v. 1. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something 2. wait before acting 3. look forward to the probable occurrence of 4. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant.
n. 1. time during which some action is awaited 2. the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something). v. 1. stay in one place and anticipate or expect something 2. wait before acting 3. look forward to the probable occurrence of 4. serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. (271) Look at Lady Muck over there, expecting everyone to wait on her!
(272) I shall be home very late tonight, so don't wait up .
(273) We'll have to wait another three weeks for the results.
(274) We'd better be going. We can't wait about like this any longer.
(275) He'd decided to make Sandra wait before letting her off the hook.