(n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
(n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Bradley Beal has developed into a dangerous second option and complementary sidekick in exactly the same way that Dion Waiters hasn't for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
(2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(3) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(4) As public sector workers prepare for the biggest strike since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner ladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their pay fall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with soaring food and energy bills.
(5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(6) The paper said the figure was a quarter of the country’s average monthly wage and around half what a waiter earns.
(7) "Most of my friends have to get jobs as waiters," says Gardiner, "and I'm getting paid to watch football and talk about it."
(8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(9) It was fully staffed with waiters in white jackets and plimsolls.
(10) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
(11) I arrived at work for 10.30am to open the restaurant as a waiter.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Habib Daguib In the aftermath of the slaughter of 38 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel have come tales of valour by waiters, lifeguards and men whose normal job is renting out water skis and plastic bananas.
(14) Corinne Haynes Nottingham • Sitting in a Paris restaurant in 1957, I asked the waiter where I could feed my baby.
(15) The authors report a case of pseudoaneurysm in an 18 year old waiter.
(16) One high-end eatery in Palma de Mallorca equips its waiters with iPod Touches on which they show pictures of dishes to patrons and, with a tap, take their orders.
(17) Unite represents some of the UK’s lowest-paid workers and has successfully campaigned this year on poor tips for waiters, the ill-treatment of workers at Sports Direct and for cleaner air for British Airways workers.
(18) I saw traffic wardens, shop assistants, and waiters subjected to rudeness and worse, by people who were clearly loaded.
(19) I'm off to Stoke where I plan to spend the next nine or 10 hours standing behind Rob Dorsett outside the Britannia Stadium making faces like this ... Roll-up man Updated at 2.37pm GMT 2.31pm GMT Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) Lazio going strong on Santos' Felipe Anderson, bidding 7m € for the 70% of his property (you know, brazilian ownerships...) January 31, 2013 2.29pm GMT Patrick O'Dea writes: "My cousin Alecc is a waiter in Red Lobster is New York," he says.
(20) As for the staff, the PR assures me that Nando's is keen to offer its workers opportunities to advance themselves, many grillers and waiters moving up the ranks to managerial status.
Waiver
Definition:
(n.) The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Example Sentences:
(1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(2) Germany and France have adopted a joint position, criticising but not rejecting the commission’s quota scheme while setting conditions such as the freezing of visa waiver schemes for the countries of the Balkans, and insisting that Italy fingerprint and register all new arrivals to keep them from travelling north to other EU countries.
(3) Federal waiver programs enable states to bypass the requirements of federal programs such as Medicare and Medicaid to experiment with different ways of financing, organizing, and delivering health care.
(4) There will be a hardship waiver for those individuals who still cannot afford coverage, and 95% of all small businesses, because of their size and narrow profit margin, would be exempt from these requirements.
(5) The proposed waivers would exempt state and local law enforcement officers in good standing who have successfully completed a polygraph with their employers.
(6) However, while the high court hears a test case about the fairness of fees, banks have a waiver against such claims.
(7) The United States Air Force (USAF) waiver file and the Office of Medical Support database were used to identify 100 pilots with onset of DU between 1981 and 1987.
(8) A roadmap for the Middle East after the Iran nuclear deal Read more The EU will in return adopt a regulation for the lifting of sanctions and the US president, Barack Obama, will issue waivers for sanctions relief.
(9) But will it be clear to every airline that someone with a waiver should be let on the plane?
(10) They will have access to higher maintenance grants, new fee waivers and student bursaries.
(11) Crucially, the bill provides no relief or waivers for the $800 filing fee to make applications to the AAT, which is likely to create a substantial barrier to seeking review of government decisions.
(12) Additionally, the law contained a judicial bypass clause stipulating that if the teenager does not want to involve each of her parents, she must obtain a waiver of the notification requirement from a judge, by demonstrating that either she is mature and capable of making an informed decision or, if she is not mature, that having the abortion without notifying her parents is in her best interest.
(13) These results suggest that the use of license-suspension waiver as an incentive to participate in a drinking driver program had a negative impact on traffic safety.
(14) The model waiver program was unique because it eliminated the bias toward hospitalization by waiving parental income and assets when determining eligibility for children cared for at home and by allowing Medicaid to cover needed home care services.
(15) The remaining ten, including Ken Clarke and Geoffrey Howe, were put down as waiverers.
(16) The White House counters that even if Congress was to refuse to lift sanctions, Obama could act unilaterally, issuing presidential waivers that would temporarily lift sanctions.
(17) US sanctions would be suspended by presidential waiver in the months after a final deal.
(18) The individual had a history of elevated lipids and smoking, and was on a waiver from the USAF for Flying Class II duties for hyperlipidemia treated with cholestyramine.
(19) From that moment to this, even as we worked tirelessly to help UMG reach the finish line, we have never waivered in our dedication to help our artists achieve their dreams.
(20) Colon has cleared waivers and can be traded to any team.