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grocer
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[ noun ] (work,business) a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)This happens on the grocer 's shelf or in your kitchen . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)Still existing on a `` Northern_Union '' telegraph_form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J._J._Hapgood to Burton and Graves ' store in Manchester - `` Get and send by stage sure four pounds best Porterhouse or sirloin steak , for Mrs._Hapgood send six sweet_oranges '' . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)They buy some supplies from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town '' . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Our suspicions eventually centered , by the process of elimination , on a grocer 's boy , a thoroughly bad_hat , who delivered cartons to the people overhead . Related terms |
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