waiting list
Example Sentences
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In a week, we had 25,000 people on the waiting list to purchase that first bottle.
From Los Angeles Times
The NHS was thought to have only two weeks' supply in stock and so was focussing on emergency patients and the most complex cases on the waiting list.
From BBC
Hospitals are being told to prioritise emergency patients ahead of those on the waiting list.
From BBC
It found waiting lists for therapeutic support were "common" and said "delays in interventions have, in some cases, placed adoptive placements at risk".
From BBC
California students in some places can attend charter schools if they clear the waiting list, but they have no private school choice.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
