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Definitions for grocer
ˈgroʊ sərgro·cer
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Princeton's WordNet
grocernoun
a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
Wiktionary
grocernoun
A person who sells groceries (foodstuffs and household items) retail from a grocery
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
GROCERnoun
Etymology: This should be written grosser, from gross, a large quantity; a grocer originally being one who dealt by wholesale; or from grossus, a fig, which their present state seems to favour.
A grocer is a man who buys and sells tea, sugar and plumbs and spices for gain. Isaac Watts, Logick.
But still the offspring of your brain shall prove
The grocer ’s care, and brave the rage of Jove. Samuel Garth.
Webster Dictionary
Grocernoun
a trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities
Etymology: [Formerly written grosser, orig., one who sells by the gross, or deals by wholesale, fr. F. grossier, marchand grossier, fr. gros large, great. See Gross.]
Wikidata
Grocer
A grocer is a bulk seller of food. Beginning as early as the 14th century, a grocer was a dealer in comestible dry goods such as spices, peppers, sugar, and cocoa, tea and coffee. These items were bought in bulk, hence the term grocer from the French "grossier" meaning wholesaler, this term derived from Medieval Latin "grossarius" from which we also derive the word gross. As increasing numbers of staple foodstuffs became available in cans and other less-perishable packaging, the trade expanded its province. Today, grocers deal in a wide range of staple food-stuffs including such perishables as meats, produce and dairy products. Such goods are, hence, groceries. In the United States and United Kingdom, supermarkets and convenience stores are sometimes described as grocery businesses, or simply grocers. The early supermarkets began as chains of grocer's shops. Clarence Saunders of Memphis, Tennessee invented the self-service grocery store with open stock in 1916, for which he received a US patent. Prior to this change in the way of doing business, the customer of a grocer would walk up to a counter or display and ask for the food items they wanted to purchase, or hand over a grocery list, as an order that the grocer or other clerks would then fill and charge the customer for.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Grocer
grōs′ėr, n. a dealer in tea, sugar, &c.—n. Groc′ery (generally used in pl.), articles sold by grocers. [Earlier grosser or engrosser, a wholesale dealer; O. Fr. grossier—gros, great.]
Etymology and Origins
Grocer
A term derived from the same root as Gross, “the great hundred,” and applied to a provision dealer who in former times was the only trader rejoicing in the monopoly of dealing in large quantities.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of grocer in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of grocer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of grocer in a Sentence
Locally, we've seen grocer flight, you can find Kroger stores in a ring around the city, but none inside the border of Detroit.
Grocery is certainly a center strategy for Amazon Fresh right now, as part of its overall strategic vision of being more present in customers' lives and being part of customers' everyday routine amazon Fresh is competing effectively in grocery, even though you may not think of Amazon Fresh as a grocer.
When The Lakeland , Florida-based grocer go out to Monument 3 and The Lakeland , Florida-based grocer talk to Border Patrol agents, it’s not just people from Mexico or Honduras or El Salvador, they are now finding people from Yemen, Iran, Turkey, people on the terrorist watch list they are catching and they are rushing it all at once.
When we ask the grocer he says there's nothing but sugar. Every day he says, tomorrow, tomorrow, but we are half way through the month now and it's not resolved, prices elsewhere are expensive. We don't know what to do.
I’ll take my hairstyling advice from my barber, I’ll take my produce advice from my grocer and I suggest you get your automotive advice from your car guy.
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- بقالArabic
- hokynářCzech
- købmandDanish
- Lebensmittelhändler, Kaufmann, Lebensmittelhändlerin, KauffrauGerman
- μπακάληςGreek
- abacera, abaceroSpanish
- épicière, épicierFrench
- grosairScottish Gaelic
- बनिया, pansariHindi
- droghiere, droghieraItalian
- 食料雑貨店Japanese
- 잡화상Korean
- apothecariusLatin
- tal-merċaMaltese
- kruidenier, kruideniersterDutch
- kjøpmannNorwegian
- merceeiroPortuguese
- băcan, băcăneasă, negustoreasă, negustorRomanian
- бакале́йщица, бакале́йщикRussian
- shitës, bakallAlbanian
- specerihandlare, livsmedelshandlareSwedish
- కిరాణాTelugu
- bakkalTurkish
- گروسریUrdu
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