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catering

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ//
  • United States/[ˈkeɪ.ɾɚ.ɪŋ]/
  • //ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ//

The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

noun

  1. 1

    The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

  2. 2

    The business of providing such services for special occasions.

  3. 3

    The act of one who caters (to something).

    Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of caterpresent participle and gerund of cater

Forms

plural
caterings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).