3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Cater \Ca"ter\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Catered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Catering}.] [From {Cater}, noun]

1. To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.

[He] providently caters for the sparrow. --Shak.

2. By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

catering

noun

1: providing food and services

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "catering": accouterment, armament, baking, barbecuing, basting, boiling, braising, brewing, broil, broiling, chandlery, cookery, cooking, cuisine, culinary science, domestic science, endowment, equipment, finding, fitting out, frying, furnishing, furnishment, grilling, home economics, investment, logistics, nutrition, outfitting, pan-broiling, poaching, preparation, procurement, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, roasting, sauteing, searing, selling, shirring, simmering, steeping, stewing, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, toasting, victualing