grocery

noun

1. 1

   Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

   1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...

2. 2

   A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

   1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

verb

1. 1

   To go grocery shopping.

   We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.

   The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley

   I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.

   Sample usage: "If you're going grocerying, pick up some GMO — you know, Goat's Milk, Organic. But it has to be non-GMO GMO."

2. 2

   To furnish with groceries.

   Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people

   What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love

Forms

plural

groceries

past tense

groceried

past participle

groceried

present participle

grocerying

third person singular

groceries