grocer
[groh-ser]
- the owner or operator of a store that sells general food supplies and certain nonedible articles of household use, as soaps and paper products.
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Origin of grocer
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Contemporary Examples
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.
In the essay, Havel imagines a grocer hanging a "Workers of the World, Unite!"
Barthelemy moved into her $800-a-month apartment after a Bangladeshi friend saw an ad at the grocer on the corner.
Historical Examples
The retailer is the grocer, the butcher, or the green grocer.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
From the jobber they go to the grocer, who delivers them to the consumer.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Mr. Jenkins, the grocer, rented a cutaway, and bought a new Panama to wear with it.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
We may then expect to find Cantal cheese at every English grocer's.
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
"I could have been a grocer if I'd wanted to," John continued.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
grocer
- a dealer in foodstuffs and other household supplies
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Word Origin
C15: from Old French grossier, from gros large; see gross
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Word Origin and History for grocer
n.
early 15c. (mid-13c. as a surname), "one who buys and sells in gross," from Anglo-French grosser, Old French grossier, from Medieval Latin grossarius "wholesaler," literally "dealer in quantity," from Late Latin grossus "coarse (of food), great, gross" (see gross). Sense of "a merchant selling individual items of food" is 16c.
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