Caterer

Quick meaning: Caterer is a noun meaning A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.

Meaning

A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.

More Meanings

1. A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.

Example Sentences

If so, you will probably sign a contract with a caterer months, maybe years, in advance and make a substantial down payment.

Although many hotels work with outside Kosher caterers to provide Kosher services, some have developed their own in-house Kosher catering departments.

There is a caterer for the table, whose sleekness of face, rotundity of person, and general air of comfortable well-being, do great honor to the cheer he provides.

“I say, Mr. Cribbage,” cried an old master′s-mate, to the caterer, who had entered shortly after the tea-kettles, and assumed his place at the end of the table, “what sort of stuff do you call this?”

Word Forms

• caterers

Synonyms for caterer

Depending on context, synonyms include cater, manciple, obsonator, steward.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bartender, waitress, barmaid, supplier, organizer, provider.

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