waitlister

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noun

A person on a waiting list.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounwaitlister (plural waitlisters)

plural waitlisters

  1. A person on a waiting list.

    Common Sense Dos and Don'ts for the Waitlister: Do: send updates with your most recent grades or other achievements.

    2009, Michael E. McGrath, Christopher K. McGrath, Decide Better! for College, page 82
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    Staff will then survey the venue to determine how many spaces are available and begin selling tickets to waitlisters in sequential order. Tickets are around $20 each and it's cash only.

    2016, Benjamin Craig, Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide (3rd Edition)

    If a waitlister does pick up but can't meet our fast-approaching move-in date, she gets scratched off the list completely.

    2017, Jonathan Escoffery, “Chasing Carlos”, in Prairie Schooner, volume 91, number 1, →DOI, page 99

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