grocery noun - definition in Business English Dictionary

grocery

/ˈgrəʊs^əri/ noun COMMERCE

› [C] (US grocery store) a store that sells food and small things for the home:

America's largest grocery store chain will be bringing two new stores to Oakland.

groceries [plural]

› the food that you buy in a store:

More people are buying their groceries online.

(Definition of grocery noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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