awaiter
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English awaytur; equivalent to await + -er.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
editawaiter (plural awaiters)
- One who awaits.
- 1916, Edith Wharton, “The Long Wards”, in The Book of the Homeless:
- these awaiters of articulate acknowledgment
- (programming) An object that waits for the completion of an asynchronous task.