[1860–65; waiter + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blind spot, calibrate, institutionalism, monism, trade name-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'waitering' in a sentence
waitering
You see this pen-less waitering more and more but it makes me anxious.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I've never, ever seen fish waitering of that class in the same room as postmodern plate-making thisgood.