waiting list
IPA: wˈeɪtɪŋɫˈɪst
noun
- An ordered list of people waiting to obtain a good or service.
Examples of "waiting-list" in Sentences
- Seven other states are accepting waiting-list applications.
- For a long time, the whole program has been oriented toward waiting-list time.
- California is accepting waiting-list applications for rebates on heating and cooling systems and water heaters.
- The organ goes to the next person on the national transplant waiting-list, the way all organs from anonymous donors do.
- Zero Zero in San Francisco's South of Market district hopes its wood-fired pizzas become as popular with lunchers as they are with its waiting-list dinner crowds.
- Probably because when I became chief executive at Christie, almost five years ago, the organisation had some issues with waiting-list targets, morale and an unclear strategy.
- • Rhode Islanders quickly exhausted $442,000 in supplemental funding that was added to their program in mid-July, and the program is also accepting waiting-list applications.
- Refusal rates are "a huge problem", said Heaton, and accessing more kidneys would save the NHS "huge amounts of money" as each patient on kidney dialysis – as 85% of those on the transplant waiting-list are – costs the service about £25,000 a year.