Usually means: Delaying action until a time.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word waiting:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. waiting: Merriam-Webster
  2. waiting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. waiting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. waiting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. waiting: Vocabulary.com
  6. Waiting, waiting: Wordnik
  7. waiting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. waiting: Wiktionary
  9. waiting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. waiting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. waiting: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. waiting: Dictionary.com
  13. waiting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Waiting (album), The Waiting (band), The Waiting (disambiguation), The Waiting (song), Waiting... (City and Colour song), Waiting... (EP), Waiting... (film), Waiting (Bobby Hutcherson album), Waiting (Degas), Waiting (Fun Boy Three album), Waiting (Green Day song), Waiting (KLF film), Waiting (Kian song), Waiting (Porcupine Tree song), Waiting (Thursday album), Waiting (Trapt song), Waiting (disambiguation), Waiting (film), Waiting (novel), Waiting (picture book), Waiting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Waiting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. waiting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. waiting: Rhymezone
  18. Waiting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. waiting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Waiting: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. waiting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. waiting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. waiting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. waiting: FreeDictionary.org

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waiting (album), waiting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. waiting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. waiting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Waiting: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See waitings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (waiting)

noun:  (obsolete) Watching, observation; keeping watch, guarding.
noun:  The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
noun:  Attendance, service.

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