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It can be used to refer to a male household servant who is in charge of the household and takes care of the needs of the family and guests. It can also be used as a title for a head servant in a large household. Example: "The butler greeted the guests at the door and escorted them to the dining room for dinner."
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butler
noun
A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
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Salaries for standard butlers range from $60,000 to $125,000 and a head butler can make as much as $250,000, according to the website of the Butler Bureau.As more and more people live to a ripe old age, demand for home-care workers is likely to soar.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right Front National, allegedly held a hidden Swiss bank account via a trust overseen by his butler, containing €2.2m including €1.7m in gold ingots and coins, the investigative website Mediapart has reported.
Jim Carter, whom she met during Richard Eyre's National theatre production of Guys and Dolls in the early 1980s, is now best known as Carson, the sternly eyebrowed butler in Downton Abbey.
Its sleek and state-of-the-art towers offer butler services, designer toiletries, entire floors reserved for Saudi royalty, wet rooms, helipads, quality linens, plush carpets and thick bathrobes.
Stevens established himself in a vast ninth-floor office with a butler dancing attendance and installed a bust of himself in the foyer.
Mediapart claimed that Gérald Gérin, a close assistant to Le Pen who has been described as his butler and who is currently a Front National regional councillor, had in 2008 become the legal beneficiary of a trust based in the British Virgin Islands.
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On leaving the local Catholic secondary school, Marcellin college, where he acted in plays, Horner worked as a booking clerk for Butler Airways and performed in revues with amateur companies.
If the BBC wants to break the mould and go with a female presenter, Jodie Kidd is the choice of bookies Ladbrokes, along with racing driver and presenter Vicki Butler Henderson and the BBC's Formula 1 host Suzi Perry.
Brannan is for dead Gerard Butler, Sutro is for heavy-handed homoeroticism, Amaro is for cats and dinners.
Penny Wong and Mark Butler - two prominent ministers and two key players in Labor's transition back to Rudd - have confirmed this morning that they voted for Rudd in yesterday's ballot.
As an academic who's read too much Judith Butler, I tend to consider action and identity in the same breath.
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