as in waiter
a person who serves food or drink
asked the waitperson what she would recommend on the menu
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Noun
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Shawnie Russell, a 22-year-old waiter at a diner in an adjacent town, said the singer’s ICE lyric hit close to home.—
Tyler Kingkade,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025 -
Someone has to dive for it — either you, a tablemate who is nearer, or a waiter.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Beverly, a waitress who had another daughter and then a son in the two years after Smith was born (and eventually one more daughter), had little time for her eldest’s metaphysical ponderings.—
Amy Weiss-Meyer,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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In Robert Towne’s visually striking but dramatically inert adaptation of John Fante’s novel, Farrell plays an aspiring writer who moves to Los Angeles and falls in love with a beautiful Mexican waitress, played by Salma Hayek.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Waitperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waitperson. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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