awaiter
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English awaytur; equivalent to await + -er.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun edit
awaiter (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.