Grocery
['grəʊs(ə)rɪ] or ['ɡrosəri]
Definition
(n.) The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
(n.) A retail grocer's shop or store.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. [England.] Groceries.[2]. [U. S.] Grocer's shop.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of general groceries, if they are fresh and clean, is a sign of ease and comfort.
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Examples
- Grocery goods, for example, are generally much cheaper; bread and butchers' meat frequently as cheap. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We are not obliged to identify our own acts according to a strict classification, any more than the materials of our grocery and clothes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The prime cost of grocery goods, therefore, being the same in both places, they are cheapest where the least profit is charged upon them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Having purchased a few small articles of grocery, and a measure of oil for the lamp, Miss Pross bethought herself of the wine they wanted. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The capital, therefore, which can be employed in the grocery trade, cannot exceed what is sufficient to purchase that quantity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The quantity of grocery goods, for example, which can be sold in a particular town, is limited by the demand of that town and its neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- You gave him a cool nod, and just now you bowed and smiled in the politest way to Tommy Chamberlain, whose father keeps a grocery store. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Adding machines may be found at work in all kinds of business places from corner groceries to department stores and manufacturing plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Very large quantities of groceries and provisions were so issued. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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