Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room for the use of persons waiting, as at a railway-station or a public office.
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Examples
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The day after my arrival I went into the old church, the body of which is now used as a warehouse, while one side of it bordering the railway line provides accommodation for the waiting-room and various offices.
Did you know? Cuautla, Mexico, has the world's oldest railway station building. 2009
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Moving the reference back of the committee's report, she said: I picked up those copies in my doctor's waiting-room.
From the archive, 17 January 1956: Succulent Popsies Not for Oxford 2012
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Ironically, the United States share a common creed with a large number of non-democratic states; huddled together with Japan, South Korea and India -- countries with very distinctive ideas of justice based on honor, retribution and religion -- America sits uneasily in the waiting-room of executioners.
Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty Rabah Ghezali 2010
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Ironically, the United States share a common creed with a large number of non-democratic states; huddled together with Japan, South Korea and India -- countries with very distinctive ideas of justice based on honor, retribution and religion -- America sits uneasily in the waiting-room of executioners.
Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty Rabah Ghezali 2010
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Even the banks of waiting-room chairs had been ripped out and brought into the open.
Quake Victims Struggle in Aftermath Marc Champion 2011
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Ironically, the United States share a common creed with a large number of non-democratic states; huddled together with Japan, South Korea and India -- countries with very distinctive ideas of justice based on honor, retribution and religion -- America sits uneasily in the waiting-room of executioners.
Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty Rabah Ghezali 2010
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The day after my arrival I went into the old church, the body of which is now used as a warehouse, while one side of it bordering the railway line provides accommodation for the waiting-room and various offices.
Did you know? Cuautla, Mexico, has the world's oldest railway station building. 2009
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I have seen a great, grown man curse a little child, who had wandered into the wrong waiting-room, searching for its mother: “Here, you damned black—” He was white.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Time, which was required reading in the '30s,' 40s and '50s, even for those who detested it, seems now to be waiting-room reading; Fortune retains relatively strong circulation but seems primarily known for its "Fortune 500" rankings; and Sports Illustrated, though still widely read, is no longer noteworthy, as it once was, for superb journalism that at times reached the lower rungs of literature.
Jonathan Yardley reviews 'The Publisher,' by Alan Brinkley Jonathan Yardley 2010
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Recently, after finding a pair of 1930s waiting-room chairs made with metal tube frames at a flea market, Mr. Worthington had their "ugly, heavyweight cushions" removed and replaced with cotton-twill black-and-white cushions that looked more contemporary.
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