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View definitions for wait upon

wait upon

verb as in attend

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Example Sentences

Request one of the waiters always to meet you as you enter, and wait upon you to your seat.

Be careful that she has a hot breakfast ready when she does rise, and take a seat at the table to wait upon her.

The waiters will hand refreshment from the tables to the gentlemen, who, in turn, wait upon the ladies.

No place near Dublin was free from the prevailing infection, and he withdrew to Waterford to wait upon events.

Since we are not disposed, however, to be hasty in our judgement, you may wait upon us in the council chamber in two hours.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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