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UK
/kˌæfɪtˈiəɹɪɐ/
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[ US /ˌkæfəˈtɪɹiə/ ]
[ US /ˌkæfəˈtɪɹiə/ ]
NOUN
- a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
How To Use cafeteria In A Sentence
- She reached the doors of the college cafeteria, slamming them behind her and locking the door. Times, Sunday Times
- Like the soapbox speakers, the cafeterias offered working-class people places to debate and discuss a wide range of issues.
- You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it. Excerpt: Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
- You can't eat this food in the cafeteria. Times, Sunday Times
- The irony gets a little heavy-handed - one of the baldies discovers love while picking up an anorexic chick in the hospital cafeteria - but the sentiment is genuine.
- A school district can reduce pay for noncontract workers - janitors and cafeteria workers, for example - and it can reduce teacher salaries from one year to the next if notice is given at least 45 days before the first day of instruction, Texas Education Agency spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe said. Chron.com Chronicle
- The robust, authentic Polish home cooking is cheap and satisfying and served cafeteria-style.
- An hour south is the Blue Lagoon, a lake with steam vents that has been developed into a beach, healing bath, and beauty spa with deck chairs, a bar, a cafeteria, massages, mud packs, and even a gift shop.
- Barry, it was pleasant seeing you today in the cafeteria. Barry I saw that you purchased the chef's salad. Apparently, you did not know that the chef's salad is kitchen trickery to utilize scrap meat.
- For a rice eater like me, cafeteria tiffin in the morning comes nowhere close to filling.