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# loiter

«loiter» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stand or wait about without hurrying and without a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (loiters, loitered, loitering)

### meaning for a pupil

To loiter is to stand or wait about without hurrying and without a clear reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loiter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a prince who wanders about with no set task; in everyday life, to hang about a shop or stop on the way home.

### examples

- The prince loitered about all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loiter/#x1)
- Don't loiter on the way to school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loiter/#x2)
- Two boys loitered by the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loiter/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «loiter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/loiter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.