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
And finally… Celebrating the heritage of French cafés, Paris’s 100-year-old waiters’ race has become an iconic tradition in the city.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Just as a waiter earns a big tip by delighting guests, businesses earn healthy profits by delighting customers.
—Boris Kontsevoi, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Candles are lit on each table, and waiters offer appetizers, main courses and dessert.
—Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2025
The waiter has a hard time understanding us.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Just as a waiter earns a big tip by delighting guests, businesses earn healthy profits by delighting customers.
—Boris Kontsevoi, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Candles are lit on each table, and waiters offer appetizers, main courses and dessert.
—Kansas City Star, 19 Sep. 2025
The waiter has a hard time understanding us.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for waiter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waiter
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In the dramedy, which marked her film debut, Sulewski plays a waitress, Becca, whose image is used by a dad to catfish his son on a dating app.—
Grace Smith,
PEOPLE,
25 Sep. 2025
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The waitress comes back and she was stunned.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The paper has been published on the preprint server arXiv.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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The startup’s testing software works on a customer’s own cloud or on-premesis servers, reducing security and data privacy concerns.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Waiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waiter. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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