plate sth up
— phrasal verb with plate uk/pleɪt/us/pleɪt/verb [ T ]
to put food onto plates, so that one plate of food can be served to each person in a group:
Will you collect the soup bowls while I plate up the main course?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing & serving meals
- cater
- catering
- dish (sth) up
- dish sth out
- do 1
- do the honours idiom
- honour
- place
- provision
- rustle
- rustle sth up
- serve
- serve sth up
- table
- take
- take sth away
- take sth out
- wait
- wait at table(s) idiom
- whip
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