"wait around" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waits around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waiting around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wait around (third-person singular simple present waits around, present participle waiting around, simple past and past participle waited around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 October 31, “United Nations: Last Words”, in Time, retrieved 2020-02-18",
          "text": "\"A terrible organization!\" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. \"If you could see how the delegates behave! […]. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 November 14, William Glaberson, “Waiting for The Post to Call”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-02-18",
          "text": "\"In the beginning, I was waiting around by the phone,\" he said. \"Then I got myself an answering machine.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 21, Charlotte Chandler, “Great interviews of the 20th century (Mae West, 1979)”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2020-02-18",
          "text": "\"Too many women wait around depending on men to bring them happiness. I didn't depend on men for mine.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome."
      ],
      "id": "en-wait_around-en-verb-fz4bhC4t",
      "links": [
        [
          "inactive",
          "inactive"
        ],
        [
          "expect",
          "expect"
        ],
        [
          "anticipating",
          "anticipate"
        ],
        [
          "impatient",
          "impatient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wait around"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "waits around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waiting around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waited around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "wait around (third-person singular simple present waits around, present participle waiting around, simple past and past participle waited around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 October 31, “United Nations: Last Words”, in Time, retrieved 2020-02-18",
          "text": "\"A terrible organization!\" said Nikita Khrushchev, all but shuddering at the memory. \"If you could see how the delegates behave! […]. They do not participate in work, but just sit there and wait around in case there's any voting.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 November 14, William Glaberson, “Waiting for The Post to Call”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-02-18",
          "text": "\"In the beginning, I was waiting around by the phone,\" he said. \"Then I got myself an answering machine.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 September 21, Charlotte Chandler, “Great interviews of the 20th century (Mae West, 1979)”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 2020-02-18",
          "text": "\"Too many women wait around depending on men to bring them happiness. I didn't depend on men for mine.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inactive",
          "inactive"
        ],
        [
          "expect",
          "expect"
        ],
        [
          "anticipating",
          "anticipate"
        ],
        [
          "impatient",
          "impatient"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To spend an especially lengthy period of time inactively, while expecting the arrival of someone or while anticipating some other event, often impatiently and often without a satisfactory outcome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wait around"
}