as in waitress
a person who serves food or drink
waiters at that elegant restaurant must go through an extended training program before being allowed to serve customers
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Amazon This is a good deal on our favorite waiter’s corkscrew.
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Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The Yale graduate and former folk singer who always wore his trademark cowboy boots knew every waiter's name and life story at the Washington, D.C., bistro Café Milano that was practically his home.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
The couple’s waiter (Search Party’s Jeffrey Self), is an aspiring stand-up comic, whose clumsiness on the job helps ease their apprehensiveness.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
Men enlisted to be soldiers not orderlies, waiters, or body servants.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Mar. 2025
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Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
The Yale graduate and former folk singer who always wore his trademark cowboy boots knew every waiter's name and life story at the Washington, D.C., bistro Café Milano that was practically his home.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
The couple’s waiter (Search Party’s Jeffrey Self), is an aspiring stand-up comic, whose clumsiness on the job helps ease their apprehensiveness.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
Men enlisted to be soldiers not orderlies, waiters, or body servants.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for waiter
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiter. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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