wait\ upon

wait\ upon
• wait (up)on
v
1. To serve.

Sue has a summer job waiting on an invalid.

The clerk in the store asked if we had been waited upon.

2. formal
To visit as a courtesy or for business.

We waited upon the widow out of respect for her husband.

John waited upon the President with a letter of introduction.

3. To follow.

Success waits on hard work.


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