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 film also features the return of Julie Bowen as Victoria Venit from the original film, as well as Christopher McDonald as Happy’s sneering nemesis Shooter McGavin.
Kelce, the star tight end from the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, makes a cameo in Happy Gilmore 2 as a waiter.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Some called for wandering magnetic poles that would have shuffled across the planet and brought cold snaps directly to continents, like a waiter serving drinks around a dining room.
—Laura Poppick
july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
The hotel was long staffed by college students who served not just as waiters but entertainers, Crockett says (his aunt was one of them in the 1960s).
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 14 July 2025
The finished products by the one-time waiter at a Steak and Ale restaurant were more than passable, nearly as pretty as the cones prepared by the owner of Wally's Burger Express on Mesa Drive in Northwest Austin.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
Some called for wandering magnetic poles that would have shuffled across the planet and brought cold snaps directly to continents, like a waiter serving drinks around a dining room.
—Laura Poppick
july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
The hotel was long staffed by college students who served not just as waiters but entertainers, Crockett says (his aunt was one of them in the 1960s).
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 14 July 2025
The finished products by the one-time waiter at a Steak and Ale restaurant were more than passable, nearly as pretty as the cones prepared by the owner of Wally's Burger Express on Mesa Drive in Northwest Austin.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiter
Noun
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In 2023, Del Rey was seen moonlighting as a waitress at a Waffle House in Alabama.—
Ilana Kaplan,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Freed of her caring duties, angry and uncertain about her future Karl gets on a Greyhound bus and heads to Las Vegas where Jean is working as a waitress at the El Cortez.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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But beneath the layers of servers and storage racks lies an invisible, growing constraint: the fiber cables that move all that information.—
Bhupendra Singh,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Club name Microsoft was also a key provider of software for on-premise servers.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiter. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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