Definitions

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  • noun The business of providing food and related services.
  • verb Present participle of cater.

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  • noun providing food and services

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Examples

  • Later works did even better in catering to both audiences.

    SF Signal Interviews Robert J. Sawyer 2009

  • And publishers seem more interested in catering to adults than the end user - the child who should be learning to read for pleasure (rather than to please a parent or teacher).

    Debating Black Books Roger Sutton 2009

  • Last year it bought Cambridge Foods, a price-competitive supermarket chain catering to the millions of poorer South Africans who have to commute to their jobs from townships and villages.

    Wal-Mart Checks Out a New Continent Robb M. Stewart 2010

  • The staggering weekend success of "New Moon" and the "Twilight" phenomenon overall both point to the value in catering event films to a wider market of viewers.

    ‘New Moon’ Weekend Two Projections, And What That Means For ‘Eclipse’ And Beyond » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • But we can make a start by calling attention to the politicians who systematically make things worse in catering to their contributors.

    greed 2005

  • But we can make a start by calling attention to the politicians who systematically make things worse in catering to their contributors.

    Paul Krugman: Losing our Country Cass Dems 2005

  • But we can make a start by calling attention to the politicians who systematically make things worse in catering to their contributors.

    Archive 2005-06-01 peaknik 2005

  • They find some people engaged in catering to tourists are more concerned with Americanizing Canada than they are with maintaining the Canadian, yes, and the British atmosphere of this great country.

    Canada's Tourist Industry 1939

  • New Yorkers had outdone themselves in catering for the amusement of their guests.

    Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • Johnson's rap offering was posted last February on the MySpace page of Hood Certified Entertainment, a record label catering to a particular slice of the hip-hop market.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

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  • Mmmmm, curried cats.

    January 11, 2010

  • HAR!

    January 11, 2010