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catering

noun

  1. commercial food service
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/ / /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/ / /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/

noun

  1. The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  2. The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  3. 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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of cater