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tea trolley

tea trolley noun: a table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.

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Noun

tea trolley (plural tea trolleys or tea trollies)

  1. (Commonwealth, especially) A table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
    • About this, he is, as ever, humorous and self-deprecating, attributing his employment to the fact that the tea trolley arrived during his interview and “I'd been so well brought-up that I just naturally leaned over and said, ‘Would anyone like a cup of tea?’.[…]”2001 May 12, Robert Potts, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    tea cart, tea wagon

tea trolley meaning in Bengali

tea trolley in Bengali

একটি চাকার টেবিল

Synonyms of tea trolley

Forms of tea trolley

pluraltea trolleys
pluraltea trollies

Questions about tea trolley

What does tea trolley mean?
Tea trolley means a table on wheels used to take food or drinks from the kitchen to the dining-room, or throughout a workplace for tea break.
What is tea trolley in Bengali?
Tea trolley in Bengali is একটি চাকার টেবিল. See Tea trolley meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tea trolley?
Tea trolley is a noun.
What is the plural of tea trolley?
The plural of tea trolley is tea trolleys.

Words near tea trolley in the dictionary

  1. tea tree
  2. Tea Tree Gully
  3. tea tree oil
  4. tea tree oils
  5. tea trees
  6. tea trolley
  7. tea trolleys
  8. tea trollies
  9. tea urn
  10. tea urns
  11. tea wagon

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