as in waiters
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Recent Examples of servers
High demand has crashed servers on Steam and other platforms.
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Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
There are more than 100 servers in more than 65 countries with 25 city-level options spread across the US and the UK.
—PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Startups no longer needed massive upfront investments in servers and IT departments, lowering the cost of entry and letting teams both innovate faster and build software at scale.
—Leslie Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
This could put real money back into the pockets of restaurant servers and others in the service industry, and that money gets spent, which helps the economy.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Last month, Microsoft found that vulnerabilities of its servers for SharePoint, its online collaborative platform, were exploited by some Chinese state actors.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The agreement will see the hyperscaler provide the social media giant with servers, storage, networking, and other cloud services for Meta’s artificial intelligence expansion.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Walker said the street’s closure has hurt bartenders and other servers who depend heavily on tourist tips.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
There are more than 100 servers in more than 65 countries with 25 city-level options spread across the US and the UK.
—PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Startups no longer needed massive upfront investments in servers and IT departments, lowering the cost of entry and letting teams both innovate faster and build software at scale.
—Leslie Lee, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
This could put real money back into the pockets of restaurant servers and others in the service industry, and that money gets spent, which helps the economy.
—Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Last month, Microsoft found that vulnerabilities of its servers for SharePoint, its online collaborative platform, were exploited by some Chinese state actors.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The agreement will see the hyperscaler provide the social media giant with servers, storage, networking, and other cloud services for Meta’s artificial intelligence expansion.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
Vulnerability reports for both POP3 email servers and IMAP email hosts can be found on the Shadowserver Foundation site.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Walker said the street’s closure has hurt bartenders and other servers who depend heavily on tourist tips.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servers
waiters
Noun
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Meanwhile, at Café Central, waiters dressed in waistcoats serve melange (a famed Viennese coffee) beneath vaulted ceilings once frequented by Trotsky and Freud.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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My entire childhood was being the boss’s son and having all the Scottish and Irish waitresses and waiters, the Russian guy making fruit salads, the Hungarian guy who made the Jell-O molds and the Haitian guys in the kitchen busting my chops for being the boss’s son.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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