wait on

verb waits on · waiting on · waited on · wait upon

1. To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. Is someone waiting on you yet?
2. colloquial To wait for (a person). I'm waiting on you before we can leave.
3. colloquial To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). I'm waiting on the light to change.
4. To be in store for (someone). the destruction that waits on Monarchs, who consider fidelity to them as the most degrading of all vices
5. archaic To visit (someone) as a courtesy, on business or for ceremony. In the Evening our Commander sent a Message to Mr. Jones, that if a Visit would not be troublesome he would wait on him.
6. archaic To occur as a consequence of (something), to result from (something). that ruine which waits upon such a supine temper
7. archaic To carry out or perform (a duty, function, etc.). Aaron and his sons […] shall wait on their priest’s office:
8. To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung.
9. US, archaic, colloquial To court (someone).
10. archaic To obey and pay attention to (someone); to follow (a leader); to attend to (someone); to be subject to (someone).