Definition of waiting list in US English:
waiting list
nounˈwādiNG ˌlistˈweɪdɪŋ ˌlɪst
A list of people waiting for something, especially housing or admission to a school.
Example sentencesExamples
- He attended the hospital for five months and was placed on a waiting list for a liver transplant.
- Once the guide dogs are fully trained they are matched with a blind person on the waiting list.
- Nearly half a million people could benefit from a new scheme aimed at reducing hospital waiting lists.
- Housing stocks are limited and waiting lists in the borough continue to grow.
- The waiting list for heart surgery in a public hospital is now more than a year.
- In two thirds of cities surveyed, waiting lists for public housing are a year or longer.
- The gynaecology waiting lists are some of the shortest waiting lists at the hospital.
- So are most of the people whose names languish on social housing waiting lists around Nunavut.
- The fund was set up two years ago to reduce waiting lists for hospitals.
- They also spent over two years on the active waiting list before receiving a transplant.
- Joy arrived five years ago, when she was put on the waiting list for social housing.
- I find that your name is still on the waiting list and that you have not yet been admitted to hospital for your operation.
- Mr Greenway claims the decision does not make sense and will increase patient waiting lists at other hospitals.
- The Auditor General's report into hospital waiting lists last week was pretty damning any way you look at it.
- The total raised so far could wipe out NHS waiting lists for eight years.
- Housing chiefs say that waiting lists and homelessness are likely to grow during this period.
- Charging patients who fail to keep hospital appointments could cut hospital waiting lists.
- The housing waiting list was still far too long and he hoped to see more schools completed on the new housing estates.
- Unfortunately, this fell on the very day that we learned that hospital waiting lists are longer than ever.
- Thousands of other sick people languishing on transplant waiting lists across the country are not so lucky.
Synonyms
line, row, column, file, chain, string, stream