catering B2 Topic:Food & Drink US /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/ UK /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/ See IPA manual Freq #11662 Meanings 1 noun The business of providing food and drink for events and occasions. They hired a catering company for the wedding reception. Thesaurus Word family Forms caterings Derived forms self-catering Etymology *kap- Proto-Indo-European View etymology graph -> Topics Food & Drink External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # catering **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈkeɪt(ə)ɹɪŋ/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈkeɪ.tə.ɹɪŋ/ **Frequency rank:** 11662 ## Meanings 1. The business of providing food and drink for events and occasions. ## Examples - They hired a catering company for the wedding reception. ## Derived Forms - self-catering ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *kap- ## Topics - Food & Drink markdown