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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Recent Examples of waiter
The post, written by user Prudent-Jello-6903, lists annual earnings beginning at $10,000 in 2013 while working as a waiter and medical student, rising to $910,000 by 2025 as an attending anesthesiologist.
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Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
Lang plays the antagonist, a bitter Alpine waiter whose family recipe for Grappa involves alchemy and witchcraft.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2026
Even something as simple as a waiter offering a choice of tap, still, or sparkling water can prompt a hint of decision fatigue.
—Mykenna Maniece, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2026
At a corner table on the expansive patio of a trendy Frogtown restaurant, Peaches’ blue eyes focus on the hovering waiter.
—Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Darlin Tillery, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
Lang plays the antagonist, a bitter Alpine waiter whose family recipe for Grappa involves alchemy and witchcraft.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2026
Even something as simple as a waiter offering a choice of tap, still, or sparkling water can prompt a hint of decision fatigue.
—Mykenna Maniece, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2026
At a corner table on the expansive patio of a trendy Frogtown restaurant, Peaches’ blue eyes focus on the hovering waiter.
—Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiter
Noun
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Kraus, who works as a waitress, took photo classes in high school.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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At one of the five Palm Beach County restaurants ordered shut, a waitress was vaping at a server station.—
Kari Barnett,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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One night, Nathan Calvin, a twenty-nine-year-old lawyer who worked at the nonprofit Encode and had helped craft the bill, was at home having dinner with his wife when a process server arrived to deliver a subpoena from OpenAI.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The analysts expect the company to benefit from strong AI server demand this year and next.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiter. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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