as in waiter
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Job openings include cooks, dessert finishers, servers, hosts, bussers and stewards, according to the company’s website.
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
But Sunseeker had only a few bartenders and servers working, who were clearly overrun, even with only half the seats around the bar filled.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2025
The server, a capricious machine with a battery of hard drives, occupied a soundproof box in his home studio.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
The Persona series is one of the best JRPG series out there, and each one is dripping with enough anime style to power Crunchyroll's servers for a decade.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
But Sunseeker had only a few bartenders and servers working, who were clearly overrun, even with only half the seats around the bar filled.
—Jackie Snow, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2025
The server, a capricious machine with a battery of hard drives, occupied a soundproof box in his home studio.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2025
The Persona series is one of the best JRPG series out there, and each one is dripping with enough anime style to power Crunchyroll's servers for a decade.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/server. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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