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Use "wait for" and you will be correct much more often. The only reason I can think of to use "wait on" is if you're telling someone where to wait, such as "on" a railway platform, or "on" a particular street corner. "Wait for Ted on the corner of sixth and main." You wait "for" the event, while positioned "on" a location.

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"Wait on" vs "wait for" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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You can say, "wait on a bus," using the phrasal verb wait on to mean "to wait for a thing to happen" and a bit of ellipsis where "a bus" stands in for "the expected arrival of a bus." Maybe, just maybe, there are people who use the phrase "bus stop" to mean "the scheduled stopping time of a bus," which would make sense when used with the phrasal "wait on," but that's not idiomatic at all in my ...

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"Wait at" or "wait on" or "wait in"? - English Language Learners Stack ...

According to Cambridge dictionary we normally say: "wait for ", but sometime we should use the preposition " to " with waiting, such as in the following example: There were a lot of people waiting to use the phone. Why do we use here "to" rather than "for", or it can be interchangeable?

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When do we use "wait for" and when we use "wait to"?

Wait is an intransitive verb—it doesn't take a direct object; consequently it can't be cast into passive voice, and its past participle can't act as an adjective: We are waiting eagerly. but We are waiting him. The event is waited. His eagerly waited arrival has been delayed. Await is a transitive verb—it does take a direct object. We await him eagerly. The event is awaited. His eagerly ...

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