catering
nounUK /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/ · US /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/
1
Philippines, UK The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
2
US The business of providing such services for special occasions.
3
The act of one who caters (to something).
- Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.1864, J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos:
- Derived terms
- catering trolley, self-catering