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 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 Abdikerm Eidleh Investigators allege Eidleh personally collected $5 million in bribes and kickbacks after instructing restaurants and catering businesses to inflate receipts submitted to the Minnesota Department of Education for reimbursement. — Jonah Kaplan, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for catering
  1. feeding
  2. boarding
Verb
  • Animators studied ostriches before feeding their digital movement curves into a six-axis mechanical rig carrying the performers.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • And to manage context rot, feeding your agents only the context required for their current step may not be enough.
    — Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of feeding
Verb
  • His thoughts postgame weren’t on boarding a bus for the 2-hour, 15-minute ride back to southeast Kansas.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Officials said the bullet passed through the teen and struck a second person, a 40-year-old man who was boarding the train with his bicycle.
    — Nicole Alarcon, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of boarding

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“Catering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catering. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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