grocer
noun/ˈɡrəʊsə(r)/
/ˈɡrəʊsər/
- a person who owns, manages or works in a shop selling food and other things used in the homeTopics Jobsb2
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- grocer’s(plural grocers)a shop that sells these thingsMore Like This Shops, etc. with apostrophesShops, etc. with apostrophesTopics Shoppingc1
Word OriginMiddle English (originally ‘a person who sold things in the gross’ (i.e. in large quantities)): from Old French grossier, from medieval Latin grossarius, from late Latin grossus ‘gross’.
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