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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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 18 July 2025
In the last few months, grocery prices, housing, people and businesses' expectations on higher inflation due to the potential higher tariffs and import prices drive up the overall price level.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
The Cash App spot finds Chalamet as the lone customer doing some grocery shopping in a remote produce shop operated by a man and his son.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
According to the online grocery delivery service, vanilla remains America’s favorite, representing 27% of all ice cream sold last summer.
—Jason Mastrodonato, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
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“Grocery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery. Accessed 22 Jul. 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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