Meaning of Grocery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
   attributive
2. A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

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Examples

“1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...”

“1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...”

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