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# grocery

noun (grocery, groceries); adjective (grocery store, grocery list)

«grocery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A grocery, or grocery store, is a shop that sells food and things for the home. In the UK it is often a supermarket or a grocer's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#m1)
2. Groceries are the food and other things you buy there, like milk, bread, fruit and soap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#m2)
3. Grocery shopping is going to buy the food for the week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#m3)

### In the lessons

Shopping: items bought, prices added, change from a note. In everyday life: a grocery list, carrying the bags, comparing prices, budgeting. In safety: stay with your grown-up in the store. Phrases: «grocery store», «grocery list», «do the groceries», «bags of groceries».

### Examples

- Mom spent 45 dollars on groceries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x1)
- She carried 4 bags of groceries. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x2)
- The grocery store sells eggs for 3 dollars a dozen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x3)
- How much change does she get from 50 dollars? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x4)
- I helped Dad write the grocery list. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x5)
- We put the groceries away in the fridge. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x6)
- The grocery store is two blocks from our house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x7)
- Can you help me carry the groceries in from the car? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/#x8)

### Note

Money spent on groceries is added up and often taken from the money she had (change = money given − total). Trap: bags of groceries are counted things, the dollars are the amount spent. «Groceries» is usually plural; «grocery» alone is mostly an adjective (grocery bag) in the USA.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grocery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grocery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grocery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grocery.html) on Mova free.