bartender

UK/ˈbɑːˌtɛndə(ɹ)/US/ˈbɑɹˌtɛndɚ/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #2,484 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: bartenders

A bartender is the person who mixes and serves drinks at a bar. Ask the bartender, a good bartender, tip the bartender.

This is the American word; British English says barman, barmaid or bar staff, and bartender is spreading because it says nothing about sex. The job carries a legal duty in most places to refuse service to somebody already drunk.

Definitions of bartender

1nounbartenderA person who mixes and serves drinks at a bar.B2
“The bartender mixed us two cocktails and slid them across the counter.”

bartender is a job.

Where it comes from

From bar + tender.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Restaurant & Cafe

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bartender in the wild

In certain countries, such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden, bartenders are legally required to refuse more alcohol to drunk customers.
Bartender
Although the legal drinking age in the United States is 21, the minimum age to work as a bartender or barback varies from 18 to 21.
Barback
The 20th century is a cocktail created in 1937 by a British bartender named C.A.
20th century (cocktail)
Thomas was an American bartender who owned and operated saloons in New York City.
Jerry Thomas (bartender)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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