waitlister

noun

waitlister

noun

Etymology From waitlist + -er.

1

A person on a waiting list.

  • Common Sense Dos and Don'ts for the Waitlister: Do: send updates with your most recent grades or other achievements.2009, Michael E. McGrath, Christopher K. McGrath, Decide Better! for College, page 82:
  • Staff will then survey the venue to determine how many spaces are available and begin selling tickets to waitlisters in sequential order. Tickets are around $20 each and it's cash only.2016, Benjamin Craig, Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide (3rd Edition):
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  • If a waitlister does pick up but can't meet our fast-approaching move-in date, she gets scratched off the list completely.2017, Jonathan Escoffery, “Chasing Carlos”, in Prairie Schooner, volume 91, number 1, →DOI, page 99:

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