waitering

Noun

waiter (plural waiters)

1. 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.
2. Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.
   • However, the NTPF also contained implicit negative incentives for the public sector by offering alternative private sector treatment for the longest waiters at no extra cost to patients or no penalty to public providers.2013, Siciliani Luigi, Borowitz Michael, Moran Valerie, OECD Health Policy Studies: Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector
3. (historical) A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.
4. (obsolete) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)
   • Cautioning her, in these terms, not to trip over a heterogeneous litter of pastry-cook’s trays, lamps, waiters full of glasses, and piles of rout seats which were strewn about the hall, plainly bespeaking a late party on the previous night, the man led the way to the second story […]1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
5. (obsolete) A custom house officer; a tide waiter.
6. (obsolete) A watchman.

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