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wait-list

wait-list is the alternative form of waitlist.

Meaning of waitlist

Noun

waitlist (plural waitlists)

  1. A waiting list.
    • We’ve already had kids get off waitlists at N.Y.U., B.U., Fairfield and Quinnipiac.”2008 May 9, Tamar Lewin, “Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students”, in New York Times

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Forms of wait-list

Noun
pluralwait-lists
Verb
third-person singular presentwait-lists
present participlewait-listing
past participlewait-listed
pastwait-listed

Questions about wait-list

What is wait-list the alternative form of?
Wait-list is the alternative form of waitlist.

Words near wait-list in the dictionary

  1. wait-a-while
  2. wait-a-whiles
  3. wait-and-see
  4. wait-awhile
  5. wait-free
  6. wait-list
  7. wait-listed
  8. wait-listing
  9. wait-lists
  10. waitable
  11. Waitaha penguin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wait-list (page history and authors); waitlist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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