grocery
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.
Origin of grocery
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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.
The Pandemic Hasn’t Gone Away – Neither Should Hazard Pay | Todd Walters and Brent E. Beltrán | August 20, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThey see people shouting in grocery stores, unwilling to wear a mask to keep us all safe.
‘He is clearly in over his head’: Read Michelle Obama’s full speech denouncing Donald Trump | kdunn6 | August 18, 2020 | FortuneFor groceries, people want to know if they can buy online and pick up in-store.
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Covid-19 “long haulers” are organizing online to study themselves | Tanya Basu | August 12, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThanks 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.
The police learned that Kemp worked in a grocery on Decatur Avenue.
Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
All Your Internet Boyfriends Are Taken: Gosling, Cumberbatch, and now Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Melissa Leon | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
Mario Cuomo, a Frustrating Hero to Democrats, Is Dead at 82 | Eleanor Clift | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe people you work with, or see at your grocery store, or your church?
While grocery shopping a guy I had noticed following me earlier, walked by me really fast and said, ‘You look shorter in person.’
Porn Stars on the Year in Porn: Drone Erotica, Belle Knox, and Wild Sex | Aurora Snow | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJess, whose heart was still sore from the blow she had received at Mr. Closewicks grocery, thought this was very kind of Griff.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonMothers money comes so very irregular that we have to run a bill at the grocery and the market and other places.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonIt was worse than being refused credit at Mr. Closewicks grocery store.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonThe establishment is really beautiful, having the appearance more of an apothecary store, than a grocery House.
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
/ (ˈɡrəʊsərɪ) /
the business or premises of a grocer
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