waiter
/ˈweɪ̯tɚ/ noun A1- A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. · Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.
- Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
- A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
Plural waiters
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When the two were established at a well-appointed table, with a promising waiter hovering in attendance, Chandler began to experience the real joy that his regular outing always brought to him.
The dinner was concluded, the waiter generously fed, and the two walked out to the corner where they had met.
Our landlord was an intelligent man, and spoke excellent English, having served for three years as waiter at the Grosvenor Hotel in London.
This plan succeeded; and Signor Pastrini himself ran to him, excusing himself for having made his excellency wait, scolding the waiters, taking the candlestick from the porter, who was ready to pounce on the traveller and was about to lead him to Albert, when Morcerf himself appeared.
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