catering

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪ.tɚ.ɪŋ/, [ˈkeɪ.ɾɚ.ɪŋ]

  • Audio (New Jersey):

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catering (countable and uncountable, plural caterings)

1. (uncountable, UK, Philippines) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
2. (uncountable, US) The business of providing such services for special occasions.
3. (countable) The act of one who caters (to something).
   • 1864, J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos:

     Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

catering

1. present participle and gerund of cater

• argentic, citrange, creating, creäting, reacting, reäcting

Ultimately from English catering.

• IPA^(key): /kateɾin/ [ka.t̪e.ɾĩn]
• Rhymes: -eɾin, -in
• Hyphenation: ca‧te‧ring

catering inan

1. catering, foodservice

• “catering”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

From English catering.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkei̯teriŋ/, [ˈk̟e̞i̯t̪e̞riŋ]
• Rhymes: -eiteriŋ

catering

1. catering

   Synonym: ateriapalvelu

• “catering”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Unadapted borrowing from English catering.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.te.rinɡ/

catering m (invariable)

1. catering, specifically when renting a front-of-house crew from a third party

• katering

Unadapted borrowing from English catering.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtɛ.riŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛriŋk
• Syllabification: ca‧te‧ring

catering m inan

1. catering

• catering in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• catering in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English catering.

catering n (uncountable)

1. catering

• cáterin

Unadapted borrowing from English catering.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeiteɾin/ [ˈkei̯.t̪e.ɾĩn]
• Rhymes: -eiteɾin

catering m (uncountable)

1. catering

   Synonym: banquete

• Real Academia Espanola

• “catering”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “catering”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN