Word.ws English Dictionary

waitressing

waitressing is the present participle and gerund of waitress.

Meaning of waitress

Verb

waitress (third-person singular simple present waitresses, present participle waitressing, simple past and past participle waitressed)

  1. (action) To work as a waitress.
    • But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.2004, Janelle Taylor, Dying To Marry

See all 2 meanings of waitress

Questions about waitressing

What is waitressing the present participle and gerund of?
Waitressing is the present participle and gerund of waitress.

Words near waitressing in the dictionary

  1. waitress
  2. waitress mom
  3. waitress moms
  4. waitressed
  5. waitresses
  6. waitressing
  7. waitresslike
  8. waitressy
  9. waitrices
  10. waitrix
  11. waitron

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: waitressing (page history and authors); waitress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “waitressing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/waitressing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.