wait

1. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.Examples: "Wait here until your car arrives."; "I’m still waiting for you to pay me back the money I lent you.."; "They also serve who only stand and wait."Synonyms: hold one's breathintransitive

2. (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.Examples: "She used to wait in this joint."Synonyms: wait on, wait upon, serveUSintransitivestative

3. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)Examples: "to wait one’s turn"; "Awed with these words, in camps they still abide, / And wait with longing looks their promised guide."; "The Court had assembled, to wait events, in the huge antechamber known as the Œil de Boeuf."archaictransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.Examples: "He chose a thousand horse, the flower of all / His warlike troops, to wait the funeral."; "Remorse and heaviness of heart shall wait thee, / And everlasting anguish be thy portion."Synonyms: bestandobsoletetransitive

5. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.Synonyms: attend, escort, go withobsolete

6. (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).Examples: "Montague Thorold, who impatiently watched her wherever she went, came to tell her that his mother waited breakfast for her."Synonyms: defercolloquialobsolete