VERB
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work for or be a servant to
The minister served the King for many years
She attends the old lady in the wheelchair
Is a salesperson assisting you?
May I serve you?
Can you wait on our table, please?
How To Use wait on In A Sentence
- The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
- He seems to expect me to wait on him hand and foot.
- It was hoped that he could be persuaded to wait on the committee in an advisory capacity.
- The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
- In extreme forms of couvade, the man may mimic the pain and process of childbirth and expect his wife to wait on him in the following days.
- This servant will wait on your guests.
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- I hate to wait on the finale but it would be an incredibly long … like 2 hour 10 min intermission and the remaining two hour … one movie. Twilight Lexicon » Seattle Times: Melissa Rosenberg on Adaptation, Stephenie Meyer, and Breaking Dawn
- As I walk the halls, I nervously await one of the rattling tchotchkes to come crashing down onto the quaintly undulating creaky floorboards.
- The only member of that group who will wait on tables next Sunday is Sean Carroll who has served at all of the 45 parties.