waitresses

noun

plural of waitress
as in bartenders

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  1. waiters
  2. servers
Noun
  • And if the fever dream of a Best Picture nomination does come true, well, YCSE’s haters just might become its waiters at the table of success.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The service The service here is a nod to the turn-of-the-last-century where waiters and barmen wear starched white dinner jackets and a pianist serenades your cocktails in a grand salon.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
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  • The worst damage was in the facilities division, where about half the servers were encrypted — meaning that district staff could not access their own systems and records.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In response, those servers delivered an exploit that served the zero-click payload when the ad appeared on an individual’s device.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of servers
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“Waitresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waitresses. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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