Synonyms for cater
ˈkeɪ tərcater

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1. provide, supply, ply, caterverb

   give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance

   "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"

   Synonyms:
   bring home the bacon, append, furnish, ply, add, provide, allow for, supply, offer, allow, render, leave, run, issue, put up

2. caterverb

   supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets

   Synonyms:
   provide, supply, ply

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1. • Give
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1. serve

   provide with what is needed or required.

   cater to popular demand.

   Submitted by JP03 on June 30, 2015  

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1. caterverb

   Synonyms:
   purvey, provide food, procure provisions

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1. caterverb

   Synonyms:
   purvey

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1. List of paraphrases for "cater":

   meet, respond, satisfy

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1. James Gunn:

   There are a lot of heartless, soulless, spectacle films out there that don't reflect what should be happening, i can't tell you the amount of times I've talked to film directors before they went and made a big movie, and said, 'Hey, we're in this together, let's do something different with these big movies. Let's make them something different than everything that has come before them.' And then see them cater to every single studio whim and be grossed out, frankly.

2. Kakadu Tourism chair Rick Allert:

   The whole area has really come of age, but we could cater for thousands more visitors, it’s a huge area, and less than three hours drive from Darwin.

3. Dali Yang:

   For the Chinese leadership, they have a domestic audience they need to cater to too.

4. Marc Short:

   If they're asserting the Fifth merely to cater to the President's whims or cover up for the President, that is not a proper use of the privilege, but we will have to do our best to divine whether they're properly invoking the Fifth or using it as a stratagem to keep information.

5. San Diego-based:

   We cater to women, mainly those who are solopreneurs or small teams.