Definition of waiter
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Examples of waiter in a Sentence
waiters at that elegant restaurant must go through an extended training program before being allowed to serve customers
Recent Examples of waiter from the Web
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To the thoughtful, kind couple with their dog who overheard us tell the waiter our dog had just died, and unbeknown to us until later, paid for our dinner.
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The park also has 51 private cabanas that come with concierge service ($160 to $550 a day, depending on size, location and season) and pairs of reservable beach chairs ($30 to $70) that come with waiter service and clamshell shades.
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A Heat signing of Griffin could leave them with a possible lineup of Griffin, center Hassan Whiteside, small forward Justise Winslow, point guard Goran Dragic and possibly Waiters or Tyler Johnson at shooting guard.
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His father, who worked as a waiter in Chicago and Pittsburgh, had only a sixth-grade education.
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The bartenders command the dark, smoky room with the no-nonsense authority of French bistro waiters, able to discern orders over the punk-rock jukebox playlist competing with whatever game is on TV.
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At what looks like seven months pregnant, Ciara Princess Wilson, an R&B celebrity the waiters here treat like royalty, is wearing a tight tonal-striped jersey minidress, slip-on sneakers, a Chanel tote, and zero makeup.
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Maids and waiters and busboys and cooks and maintenance staff would all be hard at work, striving to keep their jobs, fighting to keep their Cypress housing permits.
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Rivera, a 34-year-old Berkeley waiter who commutes to San Francisco each day, wasn’t an unwilling victim to this ad-jacking, of course.
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First Known Use of waiter
15th century
WAITER Defined for English Language Learners
waiter
playDefinition of waiter for English Language Learners
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: a man who serves food or drinks to people in a restaurant
WAITER Defined for Kids
waiter
playDefinition of waiter for Students
: a person who serves food to people at tables
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