wait on sb/sth
mainly US— phrasal verb with wait uk/weɪt/us/weɪt/verb [ I ]
to serve food and drink, especially to customers in a restaurant:
The staff who waited on us at dinner were excellent.
She waited on tables (= served meals as a job) to earn some extra money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing & serving meals
- cater
- catering
- dish (sth) up
- dish sth out
- do 1
- do the honours idiom
- honour
- place
- plate sth up
- provision
- rustle
- rustle sth up
- serve
- serve sth up
- table
- take
- take sth away
- take sth out
- wait
- whip
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