Thank you for your Patience Vs Thank you for your Patient

The right term here would be "patience."

The noun "patient" (plural: "patients") means someone who is undergoing medical treatment. However, the adjective "patient" describes someone who can wait calmly. And, perhaps even more confusingly, the noun "patience" is the quality of being able to wait calmly.

If you want to thank someone for waiting calmly, you can thank him for his patience. You can thank a medical patient for his patience when he has spent a long time in the waiting room.

Thank you for your patience

This is correct

Use this phrase to indicate that you appreciate that someone has been waiting.

Some examples from the Internet:

• Dictionary >; thank you for your patience and understanding. Your search found: thank you for your patience and understanding; Usage examples; Trends  ...
• It is implied that the job offer is the subject of the discussion. There is no need to be so precise with your words. If you wish to be polite, I would simply say "Thank you for your patience and understanding."
• Dec 10, 2012 ... That is, whoever the first person was to say "thank you for your patience", maybe the people he said it to thought, "that's rather presumptuous, what makes him think I'm willing to be patient?" But now that it's been used a million ...
• Tabular list of translations | always » List of translations starting with the same letters » Thank | you | for | your | patience · Thank you for your patience. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld. [formelle Anrede] ...
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Thank you for your patient

This is not correct. Don't use this phrase.

You probably want to use the word "patience" here instead of "patient." The word "patient" can be an adjective or a noun, but as a noun, it means someone who is undergoing medical treatment.

Some examples from the web:

• Thanks. Patient's name is odin James.
• Thanks for being patient, letting me finish.
• Thanks for being patient with us.
• You'll get lots of tearful thank
• yous from grateful patients.
• You want to love your patients, fine... thank you...
• Thanks for coming, Doctor, after I've already stabilized your patient.
• Your patient is doing fine, thanks to your team.

If you are dealing with technical assistance or some other support line, the phrase “thank you for your patience” will often be used to apologize for wait times, even if those were not long. Alternately, if you are seeing this in a letter informing you about something that has yet to happen, the meaning is more like “it may take a while for this to happen, and we apologize in advance.” In short, though, this phrase can be taken to mean that something is taking longer than might be ideal and the person speaking or writing to you about that is apologizing for it.