await · verb
Meanings and examples
To wait for someone or something that is expected.
The applicants are awaiting a decision before making any further arrangements for their move abroad.
We await your response and will reserve the meeting room once the date has been confirmed.
Several completed orders awaited collection while staff prepared the remaining packages for delivery later that afternoon.
She waited outside the interview room, quietly awaiting the moment when someone would call her name.
Forms
- await base form
- awaits third-person singular present
- awaited past tense; past participle
- awaiting present participle