well wait
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwellandwait
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well
adjective[usually after verb]
uk/wel/us/wel/
healthy; ...
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wait
noun[S]
uk/weɪt/us/weɪt/
a period of time when you stay in one place until someone comes, or something happens, or until you can ...
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(Definition ofwellandwaitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It might aswellwaitand see what the situation is next year.
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We should turn our attention to them first and the other problems canwellwait.
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So the public can jollywellwaitfor a bus of the right colour.
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This is a highly technical matter, which couldwellwaituntil further legislation.
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I should have thought that could verywellwaittill the next morning's delivery.
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If we are content to wait two years we may aswellwaitten years.
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Prices are rather too high, and possibly that is drawing into the markets a number of cattle which couldwellwaita little longer.
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We could verywellwaitfor that experience, and we could then see whether it should be applied.
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If he is not going to get that, of course he may just aswellwaitand take cash altogether.
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But the strategic solution cannot sowellwait—the cold war is proceeding; the face of the world is altering.
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I think that is a matter on which we might verywellwaituntil we see the scheme.
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We might just aswellwaituntil the trains are running to-morrow morning, which is the only time some of us can get home at all.
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Is it not the case that a lot of the suggestions which have been made couldwellwaituntil the end of the war?
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People camp overnight beside the well waiting their turn.
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