waitering

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A form of waiter — A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

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Meanings

nounwaitering (uncountable)
  1. gerunduncountablegerund of waiter: the work of a waiter, serving customers at their tables with food and drink.

    Nor yet can you lay down the gentleman's-service when stimulated by prolonged incompatibility on the part of Cooks (and here it may be remarked that Cooking and Incompatibility will be mostly found united), and take up Waitering.

    1862, Charles Dickens, “Somebody’s Luggage. Chapter I. His Leaving It till Called For.”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 256
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of waiter

Origin

From waiter + -ing.

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APA

waitering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waitering

MLA

“waitering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waitering. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “waitering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/waitering.

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