"waiting staff" meaning in English

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        "Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant."
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        "(UK) Collectively, staff employed to wait at tables in a restaurant."
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          "word": "waiter"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "waiters collectively",
          "word": "tarjoiluhenkilökunta"
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      "code": "fi",
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