catering

verb

present participle of cater
as in feeding
to provide food or meals for a local firm will cater the awards banquet for high school athletes of the year

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Recent Examples of catering Moments later, an unbothered Brown flung himself around the stadium, catering directly to his adoring, unwavering fans. — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 25 Oct. 2026 Poland also has over 86,000 places of refuge offering a lower level of protection such as basements, underground garages or subway stations, and catering for around 23 million people. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026 Eastern handles are shorter and thicker, catering more to those who use a Penhold grip, where the head of the paddle is facing down and the paddle is held like a pen. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 Airline catering workers have filed a new safety complaint against Flying Food Group, alleging they were exposed to unsafe and unsanitary working conditions at facilities serving Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). — Denis Akbari, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026 While catering an event in New York, she was approached by the president of Crown Publishers to write a cookbook for them; in 1982, Entertaining became a bestseller. — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026 Separated from downtown Ho Chi Minh City by a bend in the Saigon River, Thảo Điền was once best known as the city’s expat enclave—a leafy neighborhood of villas, international schools, and cafés catering largely to foreign residents. — Dan Q. Dao, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026 Road trippers will find public EV charging points in key market towns or at more than 50 self-catering cottages offering on-site charging. — Emese MacZko, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Kohl’s was once a retail darling, carving out market share as a department store catering to the middle-income American consumer with coupons and deals that drove loyalty. — Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 27 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catering
  1. feeding
  2. boarding
Verb
  • The reactor will produce electricity by feeding heat into a specialized nitrogen closed Brayton cycle system.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Aramco ramped it up within weeks, and the line hit its full 7 million-barrel capacity by late March, with about 2 million of those barrels feeding Saudi refineries rather than export markets.
    — Steven John, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of feeding
Verb
  • Near the Saint-Lazare train station Saturday, Akram Ahmed, a 34-year-old contractor, was boarding up an optician’s shop.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Near the Saint-Lazare train station Saturday, Akram Ahmed, a contractor, was boarding up an optician’s shop.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of boarding

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“Catering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catering. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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