catering
Britishnoun
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the trade of a professional caterer
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the food, etc, provided at a function by a caterer
Example Sentences
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A restaurant owner lost $20,000 in canceled catering contracts last summer, as sweeps across the county coincided with the summer celebration season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Prime Video has cornered the market on young-adult fiction, catering to a massive audience of women and girls who want to escape into love stories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
No other city has dozens of restaurants and bars in such proximity, run by and catering to young Latinos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Repasi said he wants to ensure the rules apply to company employees where they work, not where the business is based -- and also wants to exclude sectors like catering and construction from the rules.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
Mama leaves the kitchen and heads toward the formal dining room, where her catering orders are waiting to be packed and labeled.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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