CATERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caterer mean? 

• CATERER (noun)
  The noun CATERER has 1 sense:

1. someone who provides food and service (as for a party)

  Familiarity information: CATERER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who provides food and service (as for a party)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("caterer" is a kind of...):

provider; supplier (someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity)

Derivation:

cater (supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets)

cater (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

 Context examples 

At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

You've dyed your hair since then, remarked Jordan, and I started but the girls had moved casually on and her remark was addressed to the premature moon, produced like the supper, no doubt, out of a caterer's basket.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)