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Definition of washer-up in English: washer-upnounPlural washers-up British A person whose job or task it is to wash the dishes and other utensils in a kitchen. Example sentencesExamples - He worked first as a washer-up and, later, as a manager at Pasta Mania, and as a night manager at a burger bar in Covent Garden.
- I was working as a washer-up in an Indian restaurant in Stratford-Upon-Avon, back in 1985.
- Make sure you recruit a washer-up at home before you start cooking, though - the argument being that all your time and creative energy will have been spent fine-tuning your new repertoire to perfection.
- The hotel's general manager said ‘Jeremy was booked in as a guest, and our regular washer-up was late.’
- He worked for a while as a washer-up in a French restaurant, saving up to go to La Coupole; Conran was continually astonished by ‘this place where they had never heard of rationing.’
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