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UK
/kˈeɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈkeɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkeɪtɝ/ ]
VERB
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give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
The hostess provided lunch for all the guests - supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets
How To Use cater In A Sentence
- After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies.
- She says that when a caterpillar encases itself in its cocoon, tiny cells called imaginal cells begin to appear within the chrysalis. Love For No Reason
- I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks. Archive 2009-12-01
- In Britain the estimate is 9 billion kilos of food is wasted after catered meals and all of it is dumped.
- Another group of supervisors from light manufacturing industry are undertaking a conversion course to catering supervisor.
- But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
- We catered for forty but only twenty came.
- The money, if given, would fund the building of a new classroom, catering for children aged from three to four.
- The company doesn't anticipate any negative job impact at the Akashi plant, said Jim Dugan, a Caterpillar spokesman. Caterpillar Joins 'Onshoring' Trend
- One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services - that is cleaning, catering and laundry.