grocer
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sər noun
the owner or operator of a store that sells general food supplies and certain nonedible articles of household use, as soaps and paper products.
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| —n | |
| a dealer in foodstuffs and other household supplies | |
| [C15: from Old French grossier, from gros large; see | |
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Word Origin & History
grocer
1255, "one who buys and sells in gross," from Anglo-Fr. grosser, from M.L. grossarius "wholesaler," lit. "dealer in quantity," from L.L. grossus "coarse (of food), great, gross" (see gross). Sense of "a merchant selling individual items of food" is 16c. Grocery "a grocer's
shop" is 1828, Amer.Eng. Self-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.
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Example sentences
The system would not supply food directly, but would instead top up credit at the patient's grocer using an automatic link.
However, the grocer's distinctions have almost nothing to do with plant biology.
For those out shopping, cantaloupes currently available at your neighborhood grocer should be safe.
At he grocer's he can't sell anything because the pension owner owes the grocer money.
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