Waitering

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    gerund of waiter: the work of a waiter, serving customers at their tables with food and drink. form-of, gerund, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of waiter form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From waiter + -ing.

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