Synonyms for cater
ˈkeɪ tərcater

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1. provide, supply, ply, caterverb

   give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

   "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

   Synonyms:
   bring home the bacon, append, furnish, ply, add, provide, allow for, supply, offer, allow, render, leave, run, issue, put up

2. caterverb

   supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets

   Synonyms:
   provide, supply, ply

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1. • Give
   • Provide

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1. serve

   provide with what is needed or required.

   cater to popular demand.

   Submitted by JP03 on June 30, 2015  

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1. caterverb

   Synonyms:
   purvey, provide food, procure provisions

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1. caterverb

   Synonyms:
   purvey

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1. List of paraphrases for "cater":

   meet, respond, satisfy

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How to use cater in a sentence?

1. Leah Bessa:

   We decided to focus on an industry [ food ] that is under a lot of pressure due to animal welfare and environmental concerns, insects aren't sentient beings, and they only grow in the conditions in which they thrive, so the farming conditions cater to their animal welfare needs.

2. Mat Oakley:

   None of the major European cities could cater for that kind of demand at the click of fingers or even with six months notice.

3. Epicurus:

   I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

4. Holly Irwin:

   Greenstone Management Partners is going to make millions at the expense of what Greenstone Management Partners’s going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it’s going to set, we are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need Colorado River water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect Colorado River water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of Colorado River water to benefit metropolitan areas.

5. Marc Short:

   If they're asserting the Fifth merely to cater to the President's whims or cover up for the President, that is not a proper use of the privilege, but we will have to do our best to divine whether they're properly invoking the Fifth or using it as a stratagem to keep information.