A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.

A buffet is a café, usually in a hotel or station.

On a train, the buffet or the buffet car is the carriage or car where meals and snacks are sold.

If something is buffeted by strong winds or by stormy seas, it is repeatedly struck or blown around by them.

If an economy or government is buffeted by difficult or unpleasant situations, it experiences many of them.