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cater

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"provide food for," c.1600, from Middle English catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c.1400; late 13c. as a surname), a shortening of Anglo-French achatour "buyer" (Old North French acatour , Old French achatour , 13c., Modern French acheteur ), from Old ...

Usage examples of cater.

Set adjacent to my hotel was Gringos, an establishment of bamboo and thatch above a concrete deck and open to the aira tourist bar that, since there were no tourists, catered chiefly to expatriates and young Honduran women.

Notice in your own community how often the newspapers will notify you, as a businessperson, of an upcoming section covering fashion, catering, outdoor activities, music, electronics, boating and automobiles.

The street was filled cheek-by-jowl with pawnbrokers, wine merchants, import-export dealers, and chophouses, and all of them catering to seamen, tradesmen, and businessmen.

The cramped space had a stone floor, a small set of cupboards, and a narrow counter crowded with a hot plate, an ancient electric vat coffeepot - the same kind I used for catered events - and a cookie jar in the shape of the Kremlin.

The smaller snowplows must have come, because Cater had been cleared, permitting car traffic and curbside crack takeaway to recommence, busy as Outback Steakhouse.

Before she realized it, Anne found herself telling him about her relationship with Joe and Iva, her position in the business, some of the perils and pleasures of catering, and one or two of the more humorous incidents that had occurred.

Catering to small-business owners and other bulk buyers, these bare-bones outlets charged wholesale prices for a wide variety of brand-name merchandise but required payment of an annual membership fee.

Shand, who was openly homosexual, was known to frequent several Edinburgh gay bars, including at least one believed to cater for those whose tastes run to sadomasochistic practices.

Passing out of the refinery zone, over and under freeways and railway lines, she entered a flat, hot warehouse region of north Denver that catered entirely to semitrailer rigs and the men who drove them.

This was a delightful town, a tourist draw, catering to many Taiwanese and Western travelers.

The bartender ventured the opinion that the woman was not a prostitute, and this professional observation caused police to make fruitless enquiries at every other hotel in Tangiers that catered to foreigners.

There might have been better houses elsewhere in the tonier parts of town, catering discreetly to the native nabobs and unknown to the transient element.

He had curried it, catered to it, until all people of intelligence on Trios knew they had a chance to achieve whatever they wished in their world.

However, all tastes had to be catered for, so one small venue was reserved for highbrow drama by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides.

Rosedale apartment and eat small sandwiches at a table set up in her sunroom, wonderful catered sandwiches, crabmeat, artichoke, curried chicken.