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Wait in the wings
Answer for the clue "Wait in the wings ", 7 letters:
standby
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Word definitions for standby in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 State of readiness without being immediately involved. 2 (context travel English) Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out. 3 Something that is standard, well-tested, or frequently used. vb. (context ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. ready for emergency use; "a standby generator"; "a standby crew" n. something that can be relied on when needed an actor able to replace a regular performer when required [syn: understudy ]
Usage examples of standby.
Pacific in combat platoons or on standby to replace dogs in combat platoons.
California dishes, cooked Italian-style, a daily oven-roasted pizza special, lots of pastas, and tried-and-true standbys like short ribs, fritto misto, and whole roasted fish.
In that time, Lieutenant Hepplewhite had been informed and had alerted the men downstairs on standby, who were playing poker as it happened, though nobody had had a full house all night.
Uhura sat at her station, keeping the channels between the Enterprise and the city of New Ibadan open and on standby.
Roy, with a lightheartedness as ominous as the noise of the standby burners.
Some fibrous lumps of sea-potato, that ever-ready standby of the poor.
Solitude to bring the Rings of the wormhole transit loop up to standby power, getting them ready, linking them one to another.
We lease and sublease multi kinds of timemakeshift, standby, conceptual et al forth.
Nevertheless, when the cloning party had filed into the OR, it was Mustafa and his cluttering fellows who had been relegated to the sidelines along with the circulating nurses and standby technicians, while Hamid-Jones had been assigned to stand with ig-Gabal in the place of honor at the surgical interface, though there was nothing, really, for him to do.
An old standby is to sprinkle cornmeal around the plants, which will bloat cutworms to death if they eat it.
It was true that such institutions usually had standby generators of their own, but these carried only a partial load and outside power was essential for normal functioning.
I was, stronger and quicker in the standby queue, with heftier bribes more heftily offered.
And, strangely enough, leopards were the standby of the Sapadi Lodge-a secret that not even the shrewdest leopard had ever learned.
Standby is a low-energy setting, which is typical when a satellite is in darkness and not recharging, but this one is in the sun.
She checked the toolkits and the standbys already displayed on the screen, and touched keys to have the system warn her when it was time to go home.