wait on

[wait on] or [wait upon] {v.}

1. To serve.

* /Sue has a summer job waiting on an invalid./

* /The clerk in the store asked if we had been waited upon./

2. {formal} To visit as a courtesy or for business.

* /We waited upon the widow out of respect for her husband./

* /John waited upon the President with a letter of introduction./

3. To follow.

* /Success waits on hard work./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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