Self-catering means where you cook your own meals rather than being fed. A self-catering cottage, self-catering accommodation, go self-catering.
It is the British term for what America calls a vacation rental with a kitchen. The appeal is cost and freedom, and the complaint is always that the pans are terrible.
1adjectiveself-cateringWhere you cook your own meals rather than being fed.
“We rented a self-catering apartment, so we bought groceries and cooked most evenings.”
self-catering is a quality.
Self plus catering, from cater, to provide food, from Old French acater, to buy.
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From self + catering. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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