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waitering en · NOUN

Etymology

From waiter + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, uncountable) gerund of waiter: the work of a waiter, serving customers at their tables with food and drink.
   form of waiter
   • Nor yet can you lay down the gentleman's-service when stimulated by prolonged incompatibility on the part of Cooks (and here it may be remarked that Cooking and Incompatibility will be mostly found united), and take up Waitering. 1862, Charles Dickens, “Somebody’s Luggage. Chapter I. His Leaving It till Called For.”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 256:

waitering en · VERB

Etymology

From waiter + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of waiter
   form of waiter