Meaning & use
grocery
A store that sells food and household items, or, in the plural, the items bought there.
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We stopped at the grocery on the way home to pick up milk and bread.
She unpacked the groceries and put the vegetables straight into the fridge.
A note on using this word
In American English, 'grocery store' is more common than the bare noun 'grocery' to name the shop itself.
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