wait around
UK also wait about— phrasal verb with wait uk/weɪt/us/weɪt/verb [ I ]
to stay in a place and do nothing while you wait for someone to arrive or something to happen:
We spent the whole day waiting around for something exciting to happen, but nothing did.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Waiting
- await
- hang
- hang around (somewhere)
- hang on
- hang round (somewhere)
- hold
- lounge
- mark time idiom
- mill
- mill around
- queue
- ready
- sit
- stand
- wait in
- wait list
- wait on sth
- wait sth out
- wait up
- wait list
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