cater
IPA: kˈeɪtɝ
noun
- (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
- (obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
- (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
- (rare, obsolete) Four.
- (card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
- (music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
verb
- To provide
- (transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
- (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
- (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
adverb
- (UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
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Examples of "cater" in Sentences
- He catered the food for the camp.
- I ordered refreshment from the catering place.
- Why should we cater to the bigoted and ignorant
- Popular Catholicism is the one catered to the masses.
- The shops in Malkajgiri cater to all needs of the locals.
- College cater to the educational needs of the town populace.
- The shops in this area cater to all the needs of the people.
- In Father of the Bride, he played an unctuous wedding caterer.
- It caters the educational need of the poor sections of the society.
- Aaron, you are not in any way required to cater to the hypersensitive.