noun /ˈɡɹəʊsəɹi,ˈɡɹoʊsəɹi/
a) Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocers labour make but a very trifling addition...
Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
Syn: commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods, general store, grocery store, market, supermarket
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