Other forms: caterers
A caterer is somebody who supplies food for an event. Hire a caterer, the wedding caterer, a caterer's van.
The work is logistics as much as cooking: food for two hundred has to arrive at the right temperature at the right minute, and the kitchen is usually a tent. A caterer is booked earlier than almost any other supplier for a wedding.
1nouncatererSomebody who supplies food for an event.
“The caterer arrived early to set up the buffet for the party.”
caterer is a person.
Proto-Indo-European
*kap-
Old French
acheter — to buy, to purchase
Middle English
catour — acater, provisioner
English
cater
English, today
caterer
Built from
From cater + -er. cater comes from Middle English catour (“acater, provisioner”), aphetic form of acatour (“acater”), from Old French acheter (“to buy, to purchase”). Equivalent to cate + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA