noun:

• waiting for orders

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to arrive - slang ➜ 出待ち

noun:

• waiting (e.g. at the stage door) for performers or celebrities to exit - slang ➜ 入り待ち

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for a good hit at a pitch - Baseball term

noun:

• waiting for the sun (traditional all-night event of worship and neighbourhood fellowship) ➜ 月待ち【つきまち】

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds completed - Mahjong term

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for favorable wind; waiting for favourable wind

noun:

• waiting for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand while the rest of one's hand is exposed; waiting for half of one's pair with four melds exposed - Mahjong term ➜ 単騎待ち【たんきまち】

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for the rising tide or a good opportunity

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for customers

noun:

• waiting for key-in - IT term

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be ready and waiting for; to be on the alert for - from 手に薬煉を引く ➜ 薬煉

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting for someone to arrive

noun:

• waiting for a traffic light

expression:

• waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear; waiting in vain for an unlikely event; waiting for pigs to fly; When the sky falls, we shall catch larks - four character idiom

noun:

• student waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ➜ 浪人

noun:

• waiting for a ship to depart

noun:

• longing for someone or something; waiting for someone of great talent to arrive; stretching one's neck and standing on tiptoes [literal] - four character idiom

noun:

• lying low; saying nothing and waiting for an opportunity

noun:

• waiting list (waiting for someone to cancel) - abbreviation - slang ➜ キャンセル待ち

noun:

• waiting list (waiting for a cancellation)

noun / ~する noun:

• rōnin; ronin; masterless samurai
• waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination ［浪人］

noun:

• person out of work; jobless person ［浪人］
• wanderer; drifter ［浪人］ - orig. meaning - archaism

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be temperate in; to refrain; to abstain; to hold back; to restrain oneself from excessive ...
• to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
• to be soon; to be in the offing

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to be in a close relationship (e.g. as a backer, etc.)

noun:

• break in the rain
• waiting for a break in the rain

noun:

• being kept standing (without doing anything); remaining on one's feet
• beggar; tramp
• prostitute; streetwalker
• tout (for a hostess bar)
• street drug pusher
• day laborer standing and waiting for a job.