grocery

plural groceries

1. attributiveRetail foodstuffs and other household supplies.

   1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...

   Synonyms: commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods

2. A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

   1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...

   Synonyms: general store, greengrocer's, grocer's, grocery shop, grocery store, market, supermarket

present singular third person groceries · participle present grocerying · participle past groceried · past groceried

1. intransitiveTo 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

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   The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley

   1967, The New Yorker, volume 43, number 5, page 210

   I was dependent upon others for grocerying and getting to doctor appointments.

   2012, Hazel Rae Minnick, Living in My Shadow, page 93

   Sample usage: "If you're going grocerying, pick up some GMO — you know, Goat's Milk, Organic. But it has to be non-GMO GMO."

   [2016 July 19, “The word of the week: grocerying”, in StarTribune.com

2. transitiveTo furnish with groceries.

   Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people

   1939, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 47, number 550, page 59

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   What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love

   1998, Ron Rau, “Doing It for Money”, in David Seybold, editor, Seasons of the Angler: A Fisherman's Anthology, page 95