waiter

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.

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.

A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.historical

A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)obsolete

• 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,
• RUSTOMJEE PESTONJEE will sell by Public Auction, on MONDAY, the 9th instant, at his Rooms, in Medow Street, the property of the late Captain Ord, 3rd Regt. N.I., comprising a Double Barrelled Gun, by Baker, Silver Tea and Sugar Pots, four p

A custom house officer; a tide waiter.obsolete

A watchman.obsolete

To work as a waiter.stative

• I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered.
• He dropped out and waitered at the Spain but was fired for throwing water in a customer’s face.