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grocer

[ groh-ser ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the owner or operator of a store that sells general food supplies and certain nonedible articles of household use, as soaps and paper products.

grocer

/ ˈɡrəʊsə /

Origin of grocer¹

1325–75; Middle English < Old French gross ( i ) er wholesale merchant. See gross, -er ²

Origin of grocer¹

C15: from Old French grossier, from gros large; see gross

The grocer associations and food companies face a political conundrum.

Costco is doing very well for a grocer, but very poorly for a department store, the category to which Walmart technically belongs.

At Walmart, which is many peoples' grocer, clothier, and auto supply shop, long lines would cost them a lot of business.

His father was a gentle, honorable grocer, but his mother was “moody” and “humorless,” he said.

In the essay, Havel imagines a grocer hanging a "Workers of the World, Unite!"

She had once been almost as emphatic in expressing herself upon the subject as the corner grocer.

"Maybe the grocer's wagon will be up before ten o'clock and he might carry you," suggested Mrs. Chester.

It proved to be a grocer's boy instead of Mr. Bills, and Mrs. Biggs came back just as Howard was presenting the slippers.

Grosvenor square centre house valued at 10,000, was raffled for and won by Mrs. Hunt, a grocer's wife in Piccadilly.

The old grocer Auffray died at the time of the Empire without having had time enough to make his will.

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