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Synonyms for catered

Grammar : Verb
Spell : key-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkeɪ tər

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Définition of catered

Origin :
  • "provide food for," c.1600, from Middle English catour (n.) "buyer of provisions" (c.1400; late 13c. as a surname), a shortening of Anglo-French achatour "buyer" (Old North French acatour, Old French achatour, 13c., Modern French acheteur), from Old French achater "to buy," originally "to buy provisions," perhaps from Vulgar Latin *accaptare, from Latin ad- "to" + captare "to take, hold," frequentative of capere "to take" (see capable).
  • Or else from Vulgar Latin *accapitare "to add to one's capital," with second element from verbal stem of Latin caput (genitive capitis); see capital (adj.). Figuratively from 1650s. Related: Catered; catering.
  • verb provide, help
Example sentences :
  • No, sir, we have catered too long for the public not to know what its size is.
  • Extract from : « One Day's Courtship » by Robert Barr
  • But then, the uni-sexual Sirians, of course, often catered to their own feminine taste.
  • Extract from : « Equation of Doom » by Gerald Vance
  • The young gentry for whom he catered were not the “apples of his eyes” they had been.
  • Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • Have they not acted in public, laboured for the public, catered for the public?
  • Extract from : « The History of "Punch" » by M. H. Spielmann
  • Besides, she is a nuisance on the yacht if she must be catered to all the time.'
  • Extract from : « Walter and the Wireless » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • You said what you chose, and spoke from your own convictions, and catered to no one.
  • Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • Thereafter my trade was catered for by the best of manufacturers.
  • Extract from : « Twenty Years of Hus'ling » by J. P. Johnston
  • It was a privilege to be catered to by this master of his art.
  • Extract from : « Old Times on the Upper Mississippi » by George Byron Merrick
  • But the Elizabethan Dramatist was a man who catered to the Elizabethan play-goer.
  • Extract from : « The Shakespearean Myth » by Appleton Morgan
  • They have catered more for the intellect than for the heart and conscience.
  • Extract from : « Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume II » by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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