WAIT-LIST Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

wait-list

verb

Definition of wait-list next

as in to enroll

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Recent Examples of wait-list First year curse access (what classes can freshmen actually take) Imagine making the cut and being admitted to your dream college, only to be wait-listed for the classes needed for your major. —

Austin American Statesman, 13 Feb. 2026 With yearslong wait-lists and eye-popping price tags, the purse was the ultimate symbol of luxury—until Walmart started selling an aesthetically identical version for $80 instead of $25,000. —

Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025 Deposits and advance wait-list registration is the largest of any new event in NASCAR history. —

Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025 The company’s engineers deploy weekly updates, informed directly by the thousands of wait-list users who live in the inbox chaos daily. —

Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025 There is a wait-list open at the Fyre Festival website for early access and exclusive updates. —

Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025 Your kids will get wait-listed at Spence because they weren’t enriched enough! —

Elise Taylor, Vogue, 2 July 2025 Applied to five schools, accepted to four, wait-listed at one. —

Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Sep. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for wait-list

Verb

But this observation had not yet been made when the memory study began enrolling participants at 39 sites across the nation in 1996.

— Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
Students at those other schools are doing better on some key measures than their neighbors who decided to enroll at Locke.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026