~ (for sb/sth) to provide food and drinks for a social event:
[V] (BrE) Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. * [VN] (AmE) Who will be catering the wedding?
PHRASALVERBS
cater for sb/sth to provide the things that a particular person or situation needs or wants:
The class caters for all ability ranges.
cater to sb/sth to provide the things that a particular type or person wants, especially things that you do not approve of:
They only publish novels which cater to the mass market.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cater is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cater a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cater is tagged as verb.
Does cater appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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