Grocery

Quick meaning: Grocery is a noun meaning (attributive) Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

Meaning

(attributive) Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

More Meanings

1. A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
2. (intransitive) To go grocery shopping.
3. (transitive) To furnish with groceries.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• groceries
• grocerying
• groceried

Synonyms for grocery

Depending on context, synonyms include commodities, groceries, greengrocer's, grocer's, market, supermarket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include market, foodstuff, supermarket, grocer, storefront, store.

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