Question of the Day #812

Anecdotally, according to experts, this year also resulted in a very high number of students on wait lists.

From the 15th paragraph of this article at Time.

  上記の文で、wait listの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "wait list" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

順番待ちリスト［名簿］

ということですが、問題文のように学校・大学関係においては、「補欠名簿」と言うことになります。
ちなみに、waiting listということの方が多いように思いますが、学校関係においてはwait listが一般的のようです。  

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

a list of people who have asked for something, especially a place at a college or in a class, or a ticket for something, that is not immediately available but may be in the future

 

Examples

• ‘It also wants the government to increase funding to reduce wait lists for surgery at B.C. hospitals and give doctors more say in rebuilding the health system, he said.’
• In the Washington area 1,520 people are on the wait list for a new kidney.
• Officials said the wait list for the program is currently at 20 families.
• They agreed that 2,000 of the 2,500 coming off the wait list will be put in a less expensive program offering fewer services than the main program.
• She said they sometimes made an "executive decision" to offer care to a disabled person who was not at the top of the wait list.

 

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