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waiting room

[ wey-ting room, room ]

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noun

a room for the use of persons waiting, as in a railroad station or a physician's office.

waiting room

a room in which people may wait, as at a railway station, doctor's or dentist's office, etc

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First recorded in 1675–85

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The waiting room, which we see briefly, is appropriately crammed with patients.

He has a full waiting room just beyond the doors and four ambulances banked up outside.

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"Patients are collapsing in the waiting room. It's just hectic," Lorraine, a nurse in Birmingham, told BBC Radio 5 Live on Tuesday.

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He said there were "crowded waiting rooms with vulnerable sick patients".

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They sat in the waiting room for four hours.

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