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wait-list
orig. and chiefly U.S. [wait v.1] = waiting list s.v. waiting vbl. n.1 2 c.
1960Amer. Speech XXXV. 312 ‘There's a wait list on that one too,’ one is told somberly by steamship agents. 1977in 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. 1979United States 1980/81 (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.].
Hence as v. trans., to put (a person) on a waiting list; to draw up a waiting list for places on (an aircraft, ship, etc.); wait-listing vbl. n.
1960Amer. Speech XXXV. 312 A boat is said to be wait listed... What gloomy fate, then, awaits the prospective passenger who is wait listed? 1971Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 26 Feb. 656/2 What about his wait⁓listing for an earlier flight? 1973Daily 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. |