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cater

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Rochelle Myers Catering
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ca⋅ter

  [key-ter]
–verb (used without object)
1. to provide food, service, etc., as for a party or wedding: to cater for a banquet.
2. to provide or supply what amuses, is desired, or gives pleasure, comfort, etc. (usually fol. by to or for): to cater to popular demand; to cater to an invalid.
–verb (used with object)
3. to provide food and service for: to cater a party.
Use cater in a Sentence
Origin:
1350–1400; v. use of obs. cater, ME catour, aph. var. of acatour buyer < AF, equiv. to acat(er) to buy (see cate ) + -our -or 2

Related forms:
ca⋅ter⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. humor, indulge, please.
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Rochelle Myers Catering
Local sustainable food, handcrafted from scratch. Individual attention.
www.MyersFood.com
Catering for your Event
Full Service Catering for any Event 15 yrs catering & event experience
www.AbsolutelyPerfectCatering.com
ca·ter   (kā'tər)   
v.   ca·tered, ca·ter·ing, ca·ters

v.   intr.

  1. To provide food or entertainment.

  2. To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister: The nurses catered to my every need. The legislation catered to various special interest groups.

v.   tr.

  1. To provide food service for: a business that caters banquets and weddings.

  2. To attend to the wants or needs of.


[From obsolete cater, a buyer of provisions, from Middle English catour, short for acatour, from Norman French, from acater, to buy, from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin captāre, to chase; see catch.]
ca'ter·er n.
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Word Origin & History

cater  (v.)
1600, from M.E. catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c.1400), aphetic for Anglo-Fr. achatour, from O.Fr. achater "to buy," orig. "to buy provisions," from V.L. *accaptare, from L. ad- "to" + captare "to take, hold," freq. of capere "to take" (see capable). Caterer is attested from 1592.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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