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caterings

caterings is the plural of catering.

Meaning of catering

Noun

catering (countable and uncountable, plural caterings)

  1. (Philippines, UK, uncountable) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  2. (US, uncountable) The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  3. (countable) 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

Questions about caterings

What is caterings the plural of?
Caterings is the plural of catering.

Words near caterings in the dictionary

  1. Caterham Valley
  2. cateries
  3. catering
  4. catering trolley
  5. catering trolleys
  6. caterings
  7. caterole
  8. cateroles
  9. caterpillar
  10. caterpillar catcher
  11. caterpillar catchers

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