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verb (used without object)

to provide food, service, etc., as for a party or wedding: to cater for a banquet.

to provide or supply what amuses, is desired, or gives pleasure, comfort, etc. (usually followed by to or for): to cater to popular demand; to cater to an invalid.

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verb (used with object)

to provide food and service for: to cater a party.

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Origin:
1350–1400; v. use of obsolete cater, Middle English catour, aphetic variant of acatour buyer < Anglo-French, equivalent to acat(er) to buy (see cate) + -our -or²

Related forms

ca·ter·ing·ly, adverb

un·ca·tered, adjective

un·ca·ter·ing, adjective

Synonyms
2. humor, indulge, please.

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As a result, this spring has been stronger than ever for many businesses that cater to them.

These stores certainly still exist but the survivors seem more and more to cater to the antiquarian trade.

She roams around town, but often alights at oases that cater to nomads.

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As a result, this spring has been stronger than ever for many businesses that cater to them.

These stores certainly still exist but the survivors seem more and more to cater to the antiquarian trade.

She roams around town, but often alights at oases that cater to nomads.

Lodging and laboratory facilities cater to researchers.

Some proponents imagine small urban meat labs selling their products at street markets that cater to locavores.

Early laws fixed the price that tavern-keepers could charge for a drink, so they couldn't cater to wealthy patrons.

Below are three of the best internet streams able to cater to any flavor of space geek.

They also employ career counselors who cater specifically to graduate students.

Unfortunately, these firms rarely cater for retail customers, the supposed beneficiaries of the crusade.

Boyd learns how to cater to so many picky eaters and keep pandas, elephants, and apes happy and healthy.

The extensive and fully annotated offerings cater to all ages and levels of interest in the always-fascinating megafauna of old.

He said to stay in business these days every restaurant must cater to tourists.

Dutton found a new crop of websites that cater to women in her situation.

Business does not cater to people with different working styles: it fires people who can't or won't adapt.

Some businesses are already adjusting their ranges to cater for the grey market.

To cater to incoming visitors, locals have set up great bike and boat rental facilities, including this kayak shop.

But the great thing about good science is that it's amoral, objective and doesn't cater to the court of public opinion.

And so did the harbor businesses as they began to cater to the fishermen.

It seems that both the media and public interest are not programmed to cater for long-term concern over one matter.

And the major faculty unions, adjunct activists say, cater to the concerns of tenured and tenure-track professors.

Yet if many adults seem to have given up on virtual worlds, those that cater to children and teenagers are thriving.

In his mind, the proposal amounts to poor people subsidizing a private enterprise that will cater to the wealthy.

Many companies have been buying stocks that cater to tobacco and cigarettes.

As they cater tothose fans, they will have to look for deeper catalog.

In the years since, colleges have learned to cater to students who increasingly expect to.

Mashing is getting easier for these after-hours programmers as big websites start to cater to their needs.

They even went so far as to cater freshly-prepared dinners that arrived each night after the sun set.

Online publishers are making some effort to cater more to women readers.

Many of them expect you to be their nurturing mommy and cater to their every whim.

But the good times for business travellers may be coming to an end as companies that cater to them adjust to new realities.

Plenty to do in the city itself that will cater to people of all preferences.

Also, you need to really cater to students, totally.

Today the availability of abundant data enables companies to cater to small niche markets anywhere in the world.

Moreover, the growing distance-learning technology should not cater only to older, returning students.

But plenty of other firms remain unconvinced and many lack the capacity to cater to such ideas even if they wanted to.

Our system cannot cater to everyone's personal whims.

Those that have prospered embrace fragmentation and cater to the niche.

Polak, a former psychiatrist who now runs an organization helping poor farmers become entrepreneurs, cater to.

The owners hand-select the used inventory to cater to the artsy crowd.

While plenty of sites cater to student and teen workers, actually getting a job.

In doing so, they cater to dietary needs ranging from those.

Private breeders cater to a booming trade in exotic pets.

And a number of others in the book industry are moving to cater to the small but growing large-print segment of the market:.

Collaborative multiplayer games cater to the need to feel part of a group.

The three lengths and eight flex patterns cater to a skier's height, weight, and preferred boat speed.

Dozens of illegal after-hours clubs cater to their early-morning cravings.

Fifty years from now, according to some projections, each hectare will have to cater for.

The first commercial research-chemical sites appeared about five years ago to cater to this small underground community.

In an effort to cater to guests' sensory organs, a growing number of hotels are pumping perfume through their accomodations.

There are programs that cater to folks with no background in business or accounting.

Like the lodge, the garden was not designed to cater for large numbers of people.

The app then uses all this data to create narrowly focused feeds that cater to your personal interests.

Giant cruise ships do not cater to anglers, leaving the do-it-yourself fisherman feeling a little desperate.

She will no doubt continue to cater to the needs of both groups.

There are however some seedier parts and some areas that mainly cater to students, so be careful.

New media can cater to that in a way television never could.

Companies that cater to show-offs have much to boast about.

Those nine blades on the diaphragm also cater to modern photo.

Just think the state-supported school would actually have to cater to the taxpayers.

The state has little presence in them, and charities cater to only around a quarter of them.

The market provides an enormous range of colleges and universities that cater to a variety of tastes and motivations.

Stores that cater to well-off women have perhaps the best prospects this season.

Virtually every industry has shed jobs in the past two years, but those that cater mostly to consumers have suffered most.

Let's all cater to the laziness of people who want to live in our counrty and speak their language from another country.

But these cater only for a sophisticated few who might move their money if the bank restricts their options.

Yet, it will not change because they cater to the prevailing view in academe.

Two new start-up postal services cater to the young.

Yet global sourcing is no panacea, because it conflicts with the need to cater to local tastes.

McDonald's has made changes to its menu to cater to local tastes elsewhere in the world.

There needs to be a secular option, if only to cater for those who renouces all faiths.

The pubs will not benefit one little bit until they are alllowed to cater for everyone.

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World English Dictionary

cater (ˈkeɪtə)

—vb (when intr, foll by for)
1.	(intr; foll by for or to) to provide what is required or desired (for): to cater for a need; cater to your tastes
2.	to provide food, services, etc (for): we cater for parties; to cater a banquet

[C16: from earlier catour purchaser, variant of acatour, from Anglo-Norman acater to buy, ultimately related to Latin acceptāre to accept]

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Word Origin & History

cater

1600, from M.E. catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c.1400), aphetic for Anglo-Fr. achatour (O.N.Fr. acatour), from O.Fr. achater "to buy," orig. "to buy provisions," perhaps from V.L. *accaptare, from L. ad- "to" + captare "to take, hold," freq. of capere "to take" (see

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capable). Or else from V.L. *accapitare "to add to one's capital," from verbal stem of L. caput (gen. capitis). See capital.

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