catering
See also: Catering
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- 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) (file)
Noun
catering (countable and uncountable, plural caterings)
- (uncountable, UK, Philippines) The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
- (uncountable, US) The business of providing such services for special occasions.
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kateɾin/ [ka.t̪e.ɾĩn]
- Rhymes: -eɾin
- Hyphenation: ca‧te‧ring
Declension
Declension of catering (inanimate, ending in consonant)
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | catering | catering-a | catering-ak |
| ergative | catering-ek | catering-ak | catering-ek |
| dative | catering-i | catering-ari | catering-ei |
| genitive | catering-en | catering-aren | catering-en |
| comitative | catering-ekin | catering-arekin | catering-ekin |
| causative | catering-engatik | catering-arengatik | catering-engatik |
| benefactive | catering-entzat | catering-arentzat | catering-entzat |
| instrumental | catering-ez | catering-az | catering-ez |
| inessive | catering-etan | catering-ean | catering-etan |
| locative | catering-etako | catering-eko | catering-etako |
| allative | catering-etara | catering-era | catering-etara |
| terminative | catering-etaraino | catering-eraino | catering-etaraino |
| directive | catering-etarantz | catering-erantz | catering-etarantz |
| destinative | catering-etarako | catering-erako | catering-etarako |
| ablative | catering-etatik | catering-etik | catering-etatik |
| partitive | catering-ik | — | — |
| prolative | catering-tzat | — | — |
Further reading
- "catering" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkei̯teriŋː/, [ˈk̟e̞i̯t̪e̞riŋː]
Declension
| Inflection of catering (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | catering | cateringit | ||
| genitive | cateringin | cateringien | ||
| partitive | cateringia | cateringeja | ||
| illative | cateringiin | cateringeihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | catering | cateringit | ||
| accusative | nom. | catering | cateringit | |
| gen. | cateringin | |||
| genitive | cateringin | cateringien | ||
| partitive | cateringia | cateringeja | ||
| inessive | cateringissa | cateringeissa | ||
| elative | cateringista | cateringeista | ||
| illative | cateringiin | cateringeihin | ||
| adessive | cateringilla | cateringeilla | ||
| ablative | cateringilta | cateringeilta | ||
| allative | cateringille | cateringeille | ||
| essive | cateringina | cateringeina | ||
| translative | cateringiksi | cateringeiksi | ||
| abessive | cateringitta | cateringeitta | ||
| instructive | — | cateringein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Further reading
- “catering”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Polish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈtɛ.riŋk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛriŋk
- Syllabification: ca‧te‧ring
Declension
Romanian
Spanish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkeiteɾin/ [ˈkei̯.t̪e.ɾĩn]
- Rhymes: -eiteɾin
References
Further reading
- “catering”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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