cater to your needs

Meaning

1. 1phrasefixed phrase

   To provide exactly what someone requires or prefers, adjusting a product or service to suit them.

   Grammar: The possessive changes with the person: cater to his needs, cater to my needs. Cater is intransitive and needs to.

   Patterns

   • cater to someone's needs
   • cater to your needs

   Our flexible plans are designed to cater to your needs.

   The clinic can cater to your needs, whether you want evening or weekend appointments.

   We offer many room types to cater to your needs.

Word forms

Common combinations

cater to your needs

The menu has options to cater to your needs.

cater to individual needs

The tutors cater to individual needs.

cater to all your needs

This one store caters to all your needs.

cater to specific needs

The software can cater to specific needs.

tailored to cater to your needs

The package is tailored to cater to your needs.

Synonyms and how they differ

meet your needs

Meet your needs is plainer and more direct, while cater to suggests an organization adapting itself to you.

suit your requirements

Suit your requirements is more formal and technical, as in business documents.

serve you

Serve you is simpler and covers any help, not only meeting needs.

accommodate your needs

Accommodate suggests making adjustments or room, often for special circumstances.

Opposites

Word family

cater verb

to provide what is needed

caterer noun

a person who supplies food

need noun

something required

needy adjective

lacking basic things, or demanding attention

Commonly confused: cater to your needs or cater for your needs?

Practice

Make it your own

Write a sentence using “cater to your needs”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.

Explore more words