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catering

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ca·ter  (ktr)
v. ca·tered, ca·ter·ing, ca·ters
v.intr.
1. To provide food or entertainment.
2. To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister: The nurses catered to my every need. The legislation catered to various special interest groups.
v.tr.
1. To provide food service for: a business that caters banquets and weddings.
2. To attend to the wants or needs of.

[From obsolete cater, a buyer of provisions, from Middle English catour, short for acatour, from Norman French, from acater, to buy, from Vulgar Latin *accaptre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin captre, to chase; see catch.]

cater·er n.

catering [ˈkeɪtərɪŋ]
n
1. (Cookery) the trade of a professional caterer
2. (Cookery) the food, etc., provided at a function by a caterer
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cateringcatering - providing food and services          
job, line of work, occupation, business, line - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"
Translations
catering [ˈkeɪtərɪŋ]
A. Nservicio m de comidas
a career in cateringuna carrera en la hostelería
who did the catering?¿quién se encargó del servicio de comidas?
B. CPD catering company Nempresa f de hostelería
catering industry, catering trade Nhostelería f, restauración f

catering [ˈkeɪtərɪŋ] n (= provision of food) → restauration f
to do the catering for sth [+ function] → préparer des repas pour qch catering college
catering college nécole f de cuisine

catering
nVersorgung fmit Speisen und Getränken (→ for +gen); (= trade)Gastronomie f; who’s doing the catering?wer liefert das Essen und die Getränke?; catering servicePartyservice m; catering trade(Hotel- und) Gaststättengewerbe nt

catering [ˈkeɪtrɪŋ] ncatering m inv, ristorazione f (collettiva)
catering [ˈkeɪtrɪŋ] ncatering m inv, ristorazione f (collettiva)

catering توريد الطعام cateringové služby catering Catering κέιτερινγκ servicio de comidas y bebidas pitopalvelu restauration opskrbljivanje hranom ristorazione ケータリング 케이터링 catering bevertning gastronomia catering, serviço de bufê обслуживание питанием catering การจัดอาหาร catering việc cung cấp thực phẩm 饮食业


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Show the management that such turns are unpopular, and in a day, in an instant, the management will cease catering such turns to its audiences.
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In a highly polished country, where so much genius is monthly employed in catering for public amusement, a fresh topic, such as he had himself had the happiness to light upon, is the untasted spring of the desert;---
 
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