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grocery
/ˈɡɹoʊ.s(ə.)ɹi/
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What does grocery mean?
noun
- Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
verb
- To go grocery shopping.
More meanings (1)
verb
- To furnish with groceries.
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IPA pronunciation
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She had neglected to congratulate Charley upon having been promoted from the grocery department of Commings’s store to the drygoods department.
It was not less tragic because it was so sordid, because it had to do with wages and grocery bills and rents.
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Prize-taker and Gibraltar are mostly used for this purpose, growing to the size of the large Spanish onions sold at grocery stores.
The old grocery keeper was good enough to say that I was no fool, if I did go off owing him four dollars.
We are not obliged to identify our own acts according to a strict classification, any more than the materials of our grocery and clothes.