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waiting room
[ wey-ting room, room ]
noun
- a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.
waiting room
noun
- a room in which people may wait, as at a railway station, doctor's or dentist's office, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of waiting room1
Example Sentences
On Tuesday, prospective applicants must enter an online waiting room between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. by clicking the “apply” button on the website.
"But even when I went to the doctors, I was sat in the waiting room thinking 'this is a massive waste of time'."
Immunocompromised and disabled patients are told that unmasked hospital waiting rooms are safe when we know they are not.
Trump's moves at the Kennedy Center have overwhelmed the cultural center's website and the site directs visitors into a waiting room as of 8:30 p.m.
He says his GP was "incredibly supportive" and there was even a poster in his surgery's waiting room encouraging trans men to have a cervical screening.
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