CATERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catering mean? 

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

1. providing food and services

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providing food and services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)

 Context examples 

And, while the pharmaceutical industry is raking in billions by catering to insomniacs, Walker warns that the pills designed to help us doze off are a poor substitute for the natural sleep cycles that the brain needs in order to function well.

(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)