"waitlist" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "wait + list",
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  "etymology_text": "From wait + list.",
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      "form": "waitlists",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 May 9, Tamar Lewin, “Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "We’ve already had kids get off waitlists at N.Y.U., B.U., Fairfield and Quinnipiac.”",
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        "A waiting list."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "waitlister"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wait-list"
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  "word": "waitlist"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wait + list.",
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    {
      "form": "waitlists",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "waitlisting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waitlisted",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waitlisted",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2009 August 30, “A Long Road to Television”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "I applied to M.I.T. I had an admission interview with Roger Borovoy, an alumnus, and was waitlisted.",
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        "To place on a waiting list."
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        "(transitive) To place on a waiting list."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to place on a waiting list",
          "word": "laittaa jonotuslistalle"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to place on a waiting list",
          "word": "várólistára tesz"
        }
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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "wait-list"
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  "word": "waitlist"
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  "etymology_text": "From wait + list.",
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          "ref": "2008 May 9, Tamar Lewin, “Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "We’ve already had kids get off waitlists at N.Y.U., B.U., Fairfield and Quinnipiac.”",
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      "word": "wait-list"
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  "word": "waitlist"
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      "form": "waitlisted",
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    {
      "form": "waitlisted",
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        {
          "ref": "2009 August 30, “A Long Road to Television”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "I applied to M.I.T. I had an admission interview with Roger Borovoy, an alumnus, and was waitlisted.",
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        }
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        "To place on a waiting list."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To place on a waiting list."
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    {
      "word": "wait-list"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to place on a waiting list",
      "word": "laittaa jonotuslistalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to place on a waiting list",
      "word": "várólistára tesz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "waitlist"
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