WAITING LIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waiting list mean? 

• WAITING LIST (noun)
  The noun WAITING LIST has 1 sense:

1. a roster of those waiting to obtain something

  Familiarity information: WAITING LIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAITING LIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A roster of those waiting to obtain something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("waiting list" is a kind of...):

roll; roster (a list of names)

 Context examples 

If your liver fails, your doctor may put you on a waiting list for a liver transplant.

(Liver Transplantation, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

According to scientists at Harvard University, advances in research of xenotransplantation, or transplantation of animal organs to humans, promises to bridge the huge gap between the number of human organs available for transplants and the number of patients on waiting lists.

(Scientist Move Closer to Pig-human Organ Transplants, VOA)