as in waiters
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Recent Examples of servers
So tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the data centers — giant, energy-sucking buildings full of computer servers — to ensure the US has the technical infrastructure to deliver all of the AI magic.
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Unlike mainstream chat platforms that depend on servers or centralized networks, Bitchat’s hyper-local-Bluetooth mesh approach becomes crucial when those services are either blocked or surveilled.
—Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
To keep servers from overheating, many facilities rely on cooling systems that use water.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
High demand has crashed servers on Steam and other platforms.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The way that VPNs can boast support for so many locations is by using virtual servers.
—PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Walker said the street’s closure has hurt bartenders and other servers who depend heavily on tourist tips.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
His companies continued to hire H-2 workers during his first presidential term, posting applications for visas for 78 housekeepers, cooks and food servers at Mar-a-Lago in mid-2018, for example.
—Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Unlike mainstream chat platforms that depend on servers or centralized networks, Bitchat’s hyper-local-Bluetooth mesh approach becomes crucial when those services are either blocked or surveilled.
—Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
To keep servers from overheating, many facilities rely on cooling systems that use water.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
High demand has crashed servers on Steam and other platforms.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The way that VPNs can boast support for so many locations is by using virtual servers.
—PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Walker said the street’s closure has hurt bartenders and other servers who depend heavily on tourist tips.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
His companies continued to hire H-2 workers during his first presidential term, posting applications for visas for 78 housekeepers, cooks and food servers at Mar-a-Lago in mid-2018, for example.
—Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servers
waiters
Noun
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Meanwhile, at Café Central, waiters dressed in waistcoats serve melange (a famed Viennese coffee) beneath vaulted ceilings once frequented by Trotsky and Freud.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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My entire childhood was being the boss’s son and having all the Scottish and Irish waitresses and waiters, the Russian guy making fruit salads, the Hungarian guy who made the Jell-O molds and the Haitian guys in the kitchen busting my chops for being the boss’s son.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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