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tide waiters

tide waiters is the plural of tide waiter.

Meaning of tide waiter

Noun

tide waiter (plural tide waiters)

  1. (UK, historical) A customs inspector at a seaport who oversees the landing of goods from merchant vessels in order to secure payment of duties.
    • "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter."1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  2. A person who watches public opinion before declaring their own.

Questions about tide waiters

What is tide waiters the plural of?
Tide waiters is the plural of tide waiter.

Words near tide waiters in the dictionary

  1. tide surveyor
  2. tide surveyors
  3. tide table
  4. tide tables
  5. tide waiter
  6. tide waiters
  7. tide water
  8. tide waters
  9. tide wave
  10. tide waves
  11. tide wheel

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