Grocery

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  • noun. A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies.
  • noun. Commodities sold by a grocer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The selling of or dealing in goods at wholesale; wholesale traffic.
  • noun. Goods sold at wholesale, collectively.
  • noun. General supplies for the table and for household use, as flour, sugar, spices, coffee, etc.; the commodities sold by grocers: now always in the plural.
  • noun. A grocer's shop.
  • noun. A drinkingshop.
  • noun. Small money; halfpence and farthings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
  • noun. A retail grocer's shop or store.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Usually groceries; retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
  • noun. A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a marketplace where groceries are sold
  • noun. (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer
  • Word Usage
    "More recently Sara Lee has felt pressure from heavy price competition in grocery stores."
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