wait-list

verb

ˈwāt-ˌlist 

wait-listed; wait-listing; wait-lists

transitive verb

: to put on a waiting list

Examples of wait-list in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Over 50 percent of its schools are completely full, with wait-lists. —Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025

Milk Makeup’s Cooling Water Jelly Tints were quick to rack up 60,000 shoppers on its wait-list, 160,000 hearts on Sephora’s Loves list and sold 400,000 units during that period — nearly $10 million at the product’s $24 price point. —James Manso, WWD, 28 Jan. 2025

The Times previously reported that the Trump inaugural fund had surpassed $170 million, a record, and that even major donors have been wait-listed for events. —Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025

As of last check, the in-demand event was wait-listing prospective audience members. —Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024

The California wait list time is up to 10 years; hence California has an even higher fraction of wait-list deaths. —Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024

Applied to 11 schools, accepted to six, wait-listed at two. —Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024

Despite a social worker’s efforts, Sofia was wait-listed for a family treatment program with a Spanish-speaking provider who offered sliding-scale payment. —Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024

More than a quarter of them have since received at least one wait-list offer, Styer said. —Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for wait-list

• assist
• blacklist
• booklist
• checklist
• consist
• desist
• dismissed
• enlist
• exist
• insist
• oocyst
• persist

Kids Definition

wait-list

verb

ˈwāt-ˌlist

: to put on a waiting list