plural groceries
1
2
: a grocer's store
Examples of grocery in a Sentence
She stopped to pick up some groceries for supper.
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Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
People are already shopping online for everything from groceries to luxury goods, and spirits should be no different.
—John Mariani, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Tariffs are poised to increase the price of all sorts of goods, from groceries to technology to apparel.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 11 Apr. 2025
The cost of groceries, on the other hand, rose 0.5 percent from a month earlier.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Grocery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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grocery
noun
gro·cery
ˈgrōs-(ə-)rē 
plural groceries
1
plural
: food sold by a grocer
went out to buy the groceries
2
: a grocer's store
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