CATERING

catering

(noun) providing food and services

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

catering (countable and uncountable, plural caterings)

(uncountable, UK) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

(uncountable, US) The business of providing such services for special occasions.

(countable) The act of one who caters (to something).

Verb

catering

present participle of cater

Anagrams

• argentic, citrange, creating, creäting, reacting, reäcting

Source: Wiktionary

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CATER

Ca"ter, n. Etym: [OE. catour purchaser, caterer, OF. acator, fr. acater, F. acheter, to buy, provide, fr. LL. accaptare; L. ad + captare to strive, to seize, intens, of capere to take, seize. Cf. Acater, Capacious.]

Definition: A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ca"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Catered; p. pr. & vb. n. Catering.] Etym: [From Cater, n.]

1. To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. [He] providently caters for the sparrow. Shak.

2. By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

Ca"ter, n. Etym: [F. quatre four.]

Definition: The four of cards or dice.

Ca"ter, v. t.

Definition: To cut diagonally. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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