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noun
a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
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Origin of waiting game First recorded in 1885â90
Words nearby waiting game waiter ,
waitering ,
wait for the other shoe to drop ,
waiting ,
Waiting for Godot ,
waiting game ,
waiting in the wings ,
waiting list ,
waiting period ,
waiting room ,
waitlist
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How to use waiting game in a sentence Part of the waiting game is seeing in practice what âaccording to Islamic lawâ really means.
The same story is playing out this time, and weâre playing the same waiting game because of how difficult it is to predict when and where this thing will reenter.
âEventually something has to turn up, but itâs a waiting game .â
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Iâve been listening to it a lot lately as we approach the end of 2020 because I think it captures an important urgency in media and marketingâs present reality â the waiting game is over.
This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.
Should lightning strike and Hillary Clinton forgoes a presidential run, Democrats have a nominee in waiting.
Think of it as Game of Thronesâif you subtract the sex and violence and add drunken revelry and singing.
Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.
And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
Sol laughed out of his whiskers, with a big, loose-rolling sound, and sat on the porch without waiting to be asked.
We all rose to our feet, and he shook hands with everybody without waiting to be introduced.
At Felipe's cry, the women waiting in the hall hurried in, wailing aloud as their first glance showed them all was over.
After a bit of waiting, Mac decided that the smoke was floating from a certain direction, and we began to edge carefully that way.
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British Dictionary definitions for waiting game
noun
the postponement of action or decision in order to gain the advantage
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