"waitable" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1997, Daniel Appleman, Dan Appleman's Visual Basic 5.0 programmer's guide to the Win32 API, Ziff-Davis Press, page 1160",
          "text": "This function cancels a waitable timer operation. The timer remains in its current state and will not restart until explicitly started […]",
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          "ref": "2005, Alex Martelli et al., Python Cookbook, Second Edition, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 381",
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        "Implementing a wait/notify functionality."
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        {
          "ref": "2000 September 17, PHill, “Re: Abit KG7 worth the wait?”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (Usenet)",
          "text": "[…] ---2 months can change a lot--- bringing up '2 years' is ridiculous. 2 months is waitable.",
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        "Worth waiting, reasonable to wait."
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        "(of a period of time) Worth waiting, reasonable to wait."
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          "ref": "1998 July 6, CapnHook, “HELP!!!!!!!!!!”, in alt.disney.disneyland (Usenet)",
          "text": "[…] can someone tell me how busy tomorrowland has been is it waitable or does it like take 3 hrs like some were saying to get on RR […]",
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        "Implementing a wait/notify functionality."
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          "text": "[…] ---2 months can change a lot--- bringing up '2 years' is ridiculous. 2 months is waitable.",
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      ],
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        "Worth waiting, reasonable to wait."
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        "(of a period of time) Worth waiting, reasonable to wait."
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