Usually means: Provide what is needed, desired.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. cater: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cater: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cater, cater: Wordnik
  7. cater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cater: Wiktionary
  9. cater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cater: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cater, cater: Dictionary.com
  13. cater (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cater: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cater: Rhymezone
  18. cater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cater: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cater: Free Dictionary
  21. cater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Cater, cater: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. cater: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. cater: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. cater: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cater: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. CATER: Acronym Finder
  3. cater: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cater: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See catered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To provide
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, with 'to') To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, with 'for') To tailor something to an intended audience.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of acater: an officer who purchased cates (food supplies) for the steward of a large household or estate.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of caterer: any provider of food.
noun:  (figurative, obsolete) Synonym of purveyor: any provider of anything.
verb:  (UK dialect) To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally.
adverb:  (UK dialect, US) Diagonally.
noun:  (rare, obsolete) Four.
noun:  (card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.
noun:  (music) A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.

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