Meanings
plural waitlisters
- 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 822 more examples
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
Origin
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