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plural groceries
(usually in the plural) Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. quotations examples
Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time
A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store. quotations examples
I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
third-person singular simple present groceries, present participle grocerying, simple past and past participle groceried
(intransitive) To go grocery shopping. quotations examples
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
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
(transitive) To furnish with groceries. quotations examples
Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people
1939, John Willy, Hotel Monthly, volume 47, number 550, page 59
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