grocer 
grocer
Definition
gro·cer (grō′sər)
noun
a storekeeper who sells food and various household supplies
Etymology: ME grosser < OFr grossier, lit., dealer in the gross, wholesaler < ML grossarius < LL grossus: see gross
grocer
Synonyms
grocer
Usage Examples
Possessives
- shop: The grocer's shop would look strange to people who are used to shopping today.
- assistant: The next possibility is Edward Morgan, 25, a grocer's assistant.
- daughter: The BBC's Political Editor said last night that Margaret Thatcher was a grocer's daughter in more ways than one.
- boy: There I saw the grocer's boy actually picking off the paint on the door, which had formed into blisters.
- store: Family still live in Strathmiglo where his father ran the local grocer's store.
Converse of object
- become: Afterward became a grocer 's assistant at Northwood, Middlesex.
- include: The village had a two or three shops then, including the grocers ' , run by elderly twin brothers in white coats.
- have: His father had a grocer 's shop in St Giles's parish until the 1820s.
- run: George was born in New Deer where his parents ran a grocer 's shop; latterly they ran a similar business in Pitmedden.
Adjective modifier
- wholesale: This was followed by a succession of jobs as a clerk, a wholesale grocer and working in a coffee bar.
- licensed: Finally the Commissioners suggested that the conditions of certificate should be printed over the door of every licensed grocer.
- multiple: The multiple grocers will probably retail them at 10p a pack cheaper.
- green: I am putting my torts in polystyrene boxes I got free from our local green grocer.
- Asian: Asian grocers are good places to pick up unusual varieties.
- on-line: Nightshift Warehouse Team Manager Our Client is a major household name, the UK number one retailer and the world largest on-line grocer.
Modifies a noun
- magazine: According to The Grocer magazine a few weeks ago, these are supposed to be in place of the existing Barbecue flavor.
- shop: There were traditional English grocer shops selling cooked meat, there was a sink unit place, the British school of Motoring.
- today: Portrait of grocery employe holding employe of the month plaque... www.inmagine.com Grocery News from the Grocery Trader Magazine including all Grocer news today.
Noun used with modifier
grocer Quotes
My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.
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