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| cater | |
| 1. v. To provide, particularly: |  |
| 2. v. To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service. | |
| I catered for her bat mitzvah. | |
| His company catered our wedding. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (pejorative) to pander. | |
| I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim. | |
| 4. subst. (obsolete) (altname, acater): an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate. | |
| 5. subst. (obsolete) (altname, caterer): any provider of food. | |
| 6. subst. (figurative, obsolete) (altname, purveyor): any provider of anything. | |
| 7. v. (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. | |
| 8. adv. (UK dialect, US) Diagonally. | |
| 9. subst. (rare, obsolete) Four. | |
| 10. subst. (cards, dice, obsolete) The four of cards or dice. | |
| 11. subst. (music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell. | |
