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a person who owns or works in a shop that sells food and everyday household supplies
The grocer stacked fresh fruit beside the shop entrance each morning.
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From Middle English grocer or grosser, from Anglo-French grossier ("wholesaler"), related to gros ("large; in bulk"). The word originally denoted a merchant who sold goods by the gross, then narrowed to a retailer of food and household provisions.