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wait on verb phrase To await the approach or arrival of. [DARE labels this phrase “widespread, but more frequent South, Midland”]

1862 Shipman CW Letters (June 19) I have bin wating on you for an answer. 1901 Harben Westerfelt 33 The preacher promised me this mornin' he'd wait on me an' my folks. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I was supposed to wait on this fellow at the forks of the creek where we heard the dogs a-barking when I left him. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll IV-4 I just didn’t have time to wait on the sign ... If you're waiting on the moon, and you're needing to plant corn, it would probably be wet when the moon was right.