单词 | wait-list |
释义 | wait-listn. Originally and chiefly U.S. [wait v.1] = waiting list n. at waiting n.1 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [noun] > list of those waiting waiting list1897 wait-list1960 1960 Amer. Speech 35 312 ‘There's a wait list on that one too,’ one is told somberly by steamship agents. 1977 in H. J. Eysenck You & Neurosis vi. 185 On a rating scale of overall improvement, 93 per cent of the behaviour therapy patients contrasted to 77 per cent of the psychotherapy and wait-list patients were considered either improved or recovered. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 16 How to Use an Airline; it's full of information on how to make reservations, the difference between waitlist and stand-by, [etc.]. Derivatives wait-list v. transitive, to put (a person) on a waiting list; to draw up a waiting list for places on (an aircraft, ship, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > wait for, await [verb (transitive)] > put on waiting list wait-list1960 1960 Amer. Speech 35 312 A boat is said to be wait listed... What gloomy fate, then, awaits the prospective passenger who is wait listed? wait-listing n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expectation, waiting > [noun] > list of those waiting > act of putting on wait-listing1971 1971 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 26 Feb. 656/2 What about his wait~listing for an earlier flight? 1973 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 6/7 On less frequent services..overbooking is not employed. Instead, ‘wait-listing’ is effected, and passengers who learn that their flight is full wait at the airport on the chance of a seat becoming available. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1960 |
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