waith.html - See: LIE IN WAIT.

waith.html - {v. phr.} To serve food. * /Mrs. Lake had to teach her new maid to wait on table properly./ * /The girls earn spending money by waiting at table in the school dining rooms./

waith.html - {v. phr.} To serve in every possible way; do everything for (someone). * /Sally is spoiled because her mother waits on her hand and foot./ * /The gentlemen had a valet to wait on him hand and foot./ Compare: HAND AND FOOT.

waith.html - See: WAIT AT TABLE.

waith.html - {v. phr.} To not go to bed until a person one is worried about comes home (said by parents and marriage partners). * /My mother always waited up for me when I went out as a young student./ * /She always waits up for her husband when he's out late./

waith.html - {v.} 1. To serve. * /Sue has a summer job waiting on an invalid./ * /The clerk in the store asked if we had been waited upon./ 2. {formal} To visit as a courtesy or for business. * /We waited upon the widow out of respect for her husband./ * /John waited upon the President with a letter of introduction./ 3. To follow. * /Success waits on hard work./