waiting room

noun
a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.

Origin:
1675–85

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waiting room
 
n
a room in which people may wait, as at a railway station, doctor's or dentist's office, etc

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Waiting room is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
He was given a baseball cap to cover his baldness in the waiting room while the
  work was being done.
Meanwhile, two emergency medical technicians wheel an injured patient on a
  gurney into the hallway of a packed waiting room.
The technician spends a few minutes under your hood, then comes into the
  waiting room with your car's air filter in his hand.
We walked briskly from the waiting room to my office.
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