waitressing
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of waitressing
Example Sentences
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Also exempt: performing music, hairstyling, waitressing, personal training, pet-sitting and substitute teaching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
As they work out their divorce terms, Patricia is waitressing and staying at the family home, which she can't afford on her own.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024
While living in the Shelbourne Hotel, she took on roles very different from her wartime escapades, waitressing in cafes and selling frocks in Harrods, before taking a job as a cleaner on a passenger ship.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
I was in my mid-20s, waitressing on an island off the coast of Rockland, Maine, when the actor William Hurt — ultrafamous, at the height of his career — sat down in my section.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
She was still wearing her waitressing uniform, and the puffy skin under her deep-set eyes sagged heavily.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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