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# waitress

«waitress» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman or girl whose job is to bring food and drinks to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a waitress, waitresses)

### meaning for a pupil

A waitress is a woman or girl whose job is to bring food and drinks to customers' tables in a café or restaurant and take their orders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life about cafés, diners and restaurants; often in maths word problems about bills and tips. Many places now use «server» or «waiting staff» for everyone. Phrases: «work as a waitress», «call the waitress», «tip the waitress».

### examples

- The waitress brought us three glasses of lemonade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x1)
- My cousin works as a waitress on Saturdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x2)
- We thanked the waitress and left a tip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x3)
- The waitress wrote down our order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x4)
- Mum asked the waitress for the bill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x5)
- The waitress carried four plates at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x6)
- A waitress earns £8 an hour; how much does she earn in 5 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; plural «waitresses». Male form: waiter. Neutral forms: server, waiting staff. In the USA and Canada tipping (about a sixth to a fifth of the bill) is expected; in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand it is smaller or optional. In maths problems a "tip" is an extra amount added to the bill, often a percentage.

### In the corpora

- [And sometimes the gossip is lovely, like a big kind tip for a waitress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «waitress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waitress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.