caterest

Verb (1)

cater (third-person singular simple present caters, present participle catering, simple past and past participle catered)

1. To provide, particularly
   • Noe widdowes curse caters a dish of mine.a. 1635, Thomas Randolph, Poems, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes, page 4
2. (ambitransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
   • I catered for her bat mitzvah.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
   • I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To tailor something to an intended audience.
   • The business caters for young professionals.

Verb (2)

cater (third-person singular simple present caters, present participle catering, simple past and past participle catered)

1. (UK, dialectal) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
   • The trees are set checkerwise, and so catred [Latin: partim in quincuncem directis], as looke which way ye wyl, they lye leuel.1577, Barnaby Googe transl. Conrad Heresbach, Foure Bookes of Husbandry, Bk. II, fol. 69v

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