different between grocery vs grocers
grocery
English
Etymology
From French grosserie (“wholesale”). Compare gross.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????s(?)?i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???o?s(?)?i/, /???o??(?)?i/
Noun
grocery (plural groceries)
- (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- 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?
- 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
- 1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- 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
Usage notes
When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form, groceries, is much more frequently used to refer to actual goods, especially in the US.
Synonyms
- (retail foodstuffs and household supplies): commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods
- (store that sells groceries): general store, grocery store, market, supermarket
Related terms
- greengrocer
- grocer
- groceries
Translations
Verb
grocery (third-person singular simple present groceries, present participle grocerying, simple past and past participle groceried)
- (intransitive) To go grocery shopping.
- (transitive) To furnish with groceries.
References
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grocers
English
Noun
grocers
- plural of grocer
grocers From the web:
- what grocers are open today
- what grocers are open on thanksgiving
- what grocers accept apple pay
- what grocers are open christmas day
- what grocery stores are open
- what grocery stores are open right now
- what grocery stores take apple pay
- what grocery stores are open near me
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