await

await (əˈweɪt)

—vb
1.	(tr) to wait for; expect
2.	(tr) to be in store for
3.	(intr) to wait, esp with expectation
4.	obsolete (tr) to wait for in order to ambush

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Word Origin & History

await

early 13c., awaiten, from O.N.Fr. awaitier (O.Fr. agaitier) "to lie in wait for, watch, observe," from a- "to" + waitier "to watch." Originally especially with a hostile sense.

Example sentences

We're told to await a full roll-out of the test results, possibly later today.

Players congregate by buses as they await the evacuation decision after play

was suspended because of weather.

Draconian new criminal penalties await transgressors.

As he headed into an uncharted expanse of rain forest, he left part of the

expedition behind to await further supplies.

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