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to waitress

to waitress

13 1.3
To serve food and drinks to customers at tables in a restaurant or cafe
  • verb
  • /ˈweɪtrəs/
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  • Years ago, Schofield quit waitressing to perform solo shows full-time.
  • a waitressing job
  • waitressing at a restaurant
  • waitressing at a bar

But it's it's beyond, it's horrible with waitressing and bartending.

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Examples

  • I got this great job waitressing at a local restaurant.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • "I waitress for the sheer joy of it," she told him, smiling.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • - I waitress there a couple of nights a week.

  • Before that I was waitressing in New York City, living in Queens.

  • Moore: Her second job had been waitressing at a coffee shop.

  • I'm waitressing at this shooting range place just outside of town.

  • When I started waitressing this year, I definitely had some meltdowns when the customers were not looking.

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  • I just started waitressing—and I only made it a month and a half.

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  • We're both waitressing full-time.

  • After finishing school, I started waitressing at a local diner to earn some extra money.

Synonyms

to wait
vsto waitress
274 4.0

To serve food and drinks to people in a restaurant

refers to a female worker doing that serving role rather than the general action

Surface Forms

waitress infinitive
waitressed past
waitressed past participle
waitressing present participle
waitresses third person singular

Etymology

To waitress as a verb comes from the noun waitress, which is made from wait ('to serve') and the female ending -ress, so to waitress is to work serving food and drinks to customers at tables.