賄い|まかないmakanai[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounboarding; board; meals; catering; cook

• Related調理師ちょうりしFormal「調理師」is the formal term for a cook holding the national qualification.
• Related賄い方まかないかたNeutral「賄い方」is the person who does the cooking and runs the kitchen — a person, not the meals that 「賄い」refers to.
• Related煮炊きにたきNeutral「煮炊き」is the activity of cooking — boiling and simmering food, as in 「煮炊きする」— not the meals themselves.
• Related炊婦すいふWritten「炊婦」is a written-style, now rare word for a woman hired to do the cooking.
• Related飯炊きめしたきCasual「飯炊き」is colloquial and old-fashioned: cooking rice, or the person who does that job.
• Related炊夫すいふWritten「炊夫」is the male counterpart of 「炊婦」— written-style and rare, for a man hired to cook.
• Related煮方にかたNeutral「煮方」means the way of simmering food, or in Japanese restaurants the chef in charge of the simmered dishes.
• Related料理番りょうりばんCasual「料理番」is colloquial for the person in charge of preparing the meals.

Use 「賄い」for meals provided to staff or live-in workers, as in 「賄い付き」and 「まかない飯」. For the person doing the cooking, 「料理番」is the everyday word; a licensed cook is 「調理師」.

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1. 住み込すみこみで働はたらく人ひとに提供ていきょうされる食事しょくじ、または食事しょくじを用意よういすること。