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provisions
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???v??.?nz/
- Hyphenation: pro?vi?sions
Noun
provisions
- plural of provision
Verb
provisions
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of provision
French
Noun
provisions f
- plural of provision
Further reading
- “provisions” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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- what grocery stores accept ebt online
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