barman

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
bar
barkeeper
barmaid
barman
bartend
cut something off
free house
gastropub
hostelry
innkeeper
landlady
landlord
licensee
nineteenth
public bar
public house
publican
roadhouse
saloon
saloon bar

Examples from literature

Opposite the bartender, at a table against the wall, sat a young man, clad in cool gray. 
The bartender mixed the drinks in style, shooting the liquor from a height into the small gin-sling glasses with the dexterity that had made him famous. 
The youth, who was a bartender from a small saloon in the neighbourhood of the station, looked at him with contempt. 
They came back and had another drink at the bartender's invitation, after which they stepped to the table and watched the play for five minutes. 
When the glass was half full he hesitated and sought the face of the bartender again, for permission to go on. 

bartender | American Dictionary

bartender
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbɑrˌten·dər/
someone who makes and serves drinks in a bar

Examples of bartender

bartender
I was actually told about the importance of hiding surplus garbage bags as part of my initial training as a bartender.
For bartenders, hosts, and kitchen workers, garbage bags were the most difficult resource to obtain.
Because the bartender making drinks for servers worked right next to the wait station, interactions between servers and the bartender were quite frequent.
If there were no bags, this might mean that the bartender would leave work late simply because of the time wasted searching for bags.
A bartender holds an integral position in the culture of the bar and is central to interactions between customers.
The server is standing in the wait station filling glasses at the soda machine as the bartender is returning from the restroom.
In this example, the server's choice to pass the directive off to the bartender may result from the face-threatening nature of this specific request.
He spent his early life working as a barber, carpenter, canecutter, bartender, tailor, railroad worker and army stenographer.
Experienced waitresses and bartenders produced larger deviations from horizontality than naive participants.
However, because bartenders are not actual customers, they maintain "outsider" status in relation to customers involved in bar culture.
Restaurant bartenders are responsible for making drinks both for customers at the bar and for servers waiting on customers dining in the restaurant.
Must a bartender "cut off" a customer when it appears that another drink will make him a dangerous driver?
Lindquist (2002, 2004) argues that bartenders are naturally occurring ethnographers because of their status as participant-observers in the social life surrounding the bar itself.
The bartender is very hard-pressed, handing out drinks to all and sundry.
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