grocery

[ groh-suh-ree, groh-shree ]

/ ˈgroʊ sə ri, ˈgroʊ ʃri /

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noun, plural gro·cer·ies.

Also called gro·cer·y store . a store that sells perishable and nonperishable food supplies and certain nonedible household items, such as soaps and paper products.

Usually gro·ce·ries; especially British, gro·cer·y . food and other items sold at a grocery store or sold by a grocer.

the business of a grocer.

Southwestern U.S. (formerly)

a saloon or bar.
a liquor store.

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Origin of grocery

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English grocerie; grocer + -ie-y³

Words nearby grocery

groaner, groat, groats, grocer, groceries, grocery, groceryman, grockle, Grodno, grody, Groenendael

How to use grocery in a sentence

There have already been at least 100 grocery worker deaths and thousands of grocery workers infected or exposed to the virus.
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They see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe.
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For groceries, people want to know if they can buy online and pick up in-store.
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A full month after falling ill, she attempted to go to grocery shopping and ended up in bed for days.
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Thanks to the pandemic, the term “essential workers” now means everyone from health care personnel to transit operators to grocery store employees who must go to work despite shutdowns.
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The police learned that Kemp worked in a grocery on Decatur Avenue.
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Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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The people you work with, or see at your grocery store, or your church?
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While grocery shopping a guy I had noticed following me earlier, walked by me really fast and said, ‘You look shorter in person.’
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Jess, whose heart was still sore from the blow she had received at Mr. Closewicks grocery, thought this was very kind of Griff.
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Mothers money comes so very irregular that we have to run a bill at the grocery and the market and other places.
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It was worse than being refused credit at Mr. Closewicks grocery store.
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The establishment is really beautiful, having the appearance more of an apothecary store, than a Grocery House.
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He throws out these materials and insists on his wife getting others at another grocery store.
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British Dictionary definitions for grocery

grocery

/ (ˈɡrəʊsərɪ) /

noun plural -ceries

the business or premises of a grocer

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