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waiter

[wey-ter] / ˈweɪ tər /


NOUN
serving tray
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I just saw the waiter put some chairs on top of a table.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Alexander Garcia, a 44-year-old waiter, said he heard firefighters declare "Code 14," which he later found out meant that there were no survivors.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Don’t miss: ‘I’ll probably be working until I die’: I’m 60, work as a waiter and have $2,000 in a Roth IRA.

From MarketWatch Jun. 20, 2026

Meanwhile Rocky had been out of work for a year before he joined Nando's as a waiter.

From BBC May 27, 2026

Over the samovar’s chimney, the waiter had draped a string festooned with bublitchki, small bagel-shaped rolls baked to a glossy sheen.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Their children enjoyed "going around like little waiters with like four pizza boxes" with one saying "you ordered a pizza", she said.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The waiters move slowly, the mirrors hold onto the past.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

So when, at the first eat-in, at the Sands that February, the children defaulted to ordering hamburgers, Duncan barked to the waiters: “No, they do not want hamburgers. They want steak and lobster.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

"We have waiters, mechanics, managers, lawyers -- people who have been able to build different lives," he told AFP.

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Young mice waiters with perky black bow ties bustled among the diners, stepping neatly over their tails, serving the soup course.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck




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