a list of people who are waiting for sth such as a service or medical treatment that is not yet available:
There are no places available right now but I'll put you on a waiting list. * There's a waiting list to join the golf club. * (BrE) The government has promised to cut hospital waiting lists.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for waiting list is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is waiting list a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, waiting list is tagged as noun.
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