catering
/ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/UK/ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/
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catering noun: the business of providing food and related services; foodservice. Also the present participle and gerund of cater.
Noun
catering (countable and uncountable, plural caterings)
- The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
- The business of providing such services for special occasions.
- The act of one who caters (to something).
- Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.1864, J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
Also used as
catering is also the present participle and gerund of cater.
catering meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Telugu and Punjabi
catering in Urdu
- کیٹرینگ, کیٹرنگ
catering in Bengali
- ক্যাটারিং
catering in Telugu
- క్యాటరింగ్
catering in Punjabi
- ਕੇਟਰਿੰਗ
More languagesFewer languages
- catering in Gujarati
- કેટરિંગ
- catering in Arabic
- تَمْوِين tamwīn
- catering in Malay
- katering, penyajian
- catering in Indonesian
- jasa boga, katering
- catering in Persian
- کیترینگ keytering
Forms of catering
| plural | caterings |
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Words formed from catering
Phrases with catering
Questions about catering
- What does catering mean?
- Catering means the business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
- What is catering in Urdu?
- Catering in Urdu is کیٹرینگ, کیٹرنگ. See Catering meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is catering?
- Catering is a noun.
- How do you pronounce catering?
- Catering is pronounced /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of catering?
- The plural of catering is caterings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: catering (page history and authors); catering (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); catering (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); catering (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); catering (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); catering (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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