"-in-waiting" meaning in English

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    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "baroness-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "groom-in-waiting"
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    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "lady-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "maid-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "lord-in-waiting"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "accident waiting to happen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "44 44 12",
      "word": "wait in the wings"
    }
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
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          "ref": "1999, David Foster Wallace, “Suicide as a Sort of Present”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company:",
          "text": "Throughout her adolescence, authorities... commented that the young mother-in-waiting 'seem[ed] to have very, very high expectations of [her]self,' and... there was no failing to discern in them that slight unmistakable note of approval... and at any rate the future mother felt (for the moment) approved.",
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          "depend"
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          "expected",
          "expected"
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          "arrival",
          "arrival"
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        [
          "result",
          "result"
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        [
          "confirmation",
          "confirmation"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Choosing such an unqualified person to operate the machine is an accident-in-waiting.",
          "type": "example"
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      "glosses": [
        "About to happen; bound to happen."
      ],
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          "bound to",
          "bound to"
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      "glosses": [
        "Attendant to a royal figure."
      ],
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          "Attendant",
          "attendant"
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          "royal",
          "royal"
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        "morpheme"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "baroness-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "groom-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "lady-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "maid-in-waiting"
    },
    {
      "word": "lord-in-waiting"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "accident waiting to happen"
    },
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      "word": "wait in the wings"
    }
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          "ref": "1999, David Foster Wallace, “Suicide as a Sort of Present”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company:",
          "text": "Throughout her adolescence, authorities... commented that the young mother-in-waiting 'seem[ed] to have very, very high expectations of [her]self,' and... there was no failing to discern in them that slight unmistakable note of approval... and at any rate the future mother felt (for the moment) approved.",
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        "About to happen; bound to happen."
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        "Attendant to a royal figure."
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  "word": "-in-waiting"
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