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grocerying

grocerying is the present participle and gerund of grocery.

Meaning of grocery

Verb

grocery (third-person singular simple present groceries, present participle grocerying, simple past and past participle groceried)

  1. (intransitive) To go grocery shopping.
    • We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.1913, George Lee Burton, Tackling Matrimony: To the Men and Girls who Love Each Other More than Ease and Show and Sham
  2. (transitive) To furnish with groceries.
    • Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people1939, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 47, number 550, page 59

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Questions about grocerying

What is grocerying the present participle and gerund of?
Grocerying is the present participle and gerund of grocery.

Words near grocerying in the dictionary

  1. grocery shopping
  2. grocery shops
  3. grocery shrink ray
  4. grocery store
  5. grocery stores
  6. grocerying
  7. groceryman
  8. grocerymen
  9. grocería
  10. grocerías
  11. Groces

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