(n.) A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities.
Example Sentences:
(1) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(2) Protests against the four grocers will be halted while agreements over the new price for milk are finalised.
(3) In contrast to the struggles of the established grocers, Aldi increased sales by 17.3% and Lidl grew 16%.
(4) Tesco’s accounting scandal has led to concerns about the way the sector handles payments from suppliers for promoting products or hitting sales targets, and UK grocers are operating under fierce competition from discounters such as the German company Aldi which has reported a 65% rise in profits in the UK.
(5) Sainsbury's was the only one of the major grocers to increase market share, but it still sits in third place behind Asda, according to Kantar's figures.
(6) Aldi was also confirmed as the UK’s fastest growing grocer in the latest market share data released by Kantar Worldpanel.
(7) On Monday, after months of intense talks with two US hedge funds, the Co-op Group – which also owns pharmacies, grocers and funeral homes – was forced to cede majority control of its bank as part of its battle to plug a £1.5bn capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
(8) Upmarket US grocer Whole Foods Market nearly halved losses in the UK last year as it increased sales by 24%.
(9) He was also the grocer's marketing supremo, the man who dreamed up the Clubcard and built the brand's classless image in the UK.
(10) But it may help steer a few more people away from Starbucks in the direction of Costa or one of those small independent coffee shops, book shops, grocers (etc, etc) whom we should cherish while they cling on in the face of unfair competition.
(11) EasyFoodstore is the easyJet founder’s latest venture – an ultra-budget grocer for people struggling to put food on the table.
(12) The dead included an IT specialist employed by the city council, a grocer, and a science professor.
(13) The grocer opened 12 new hypermarkets last year, and is due to launch an online groceries business in Shanghai later this year.
(14) Traditionally, shoppers have shied away from cut-price stores as they prepare to treat their families at Christmas, instead heading to the big four or to upmarket grocers such as Marks & Spencer and Waitrose.
(15) The latest figures from TNS, a market researcher, put Tesco's market share among the grocers at 30.8%, down from a peak of 31.6% reached last August.
(16) Fascination with the Protestant pastor's daughter is on a par with that of the grocer's daughter.
(17) Like the Co-op grocers or the Big Issue , Building Bloqs is a social enterprise: it has to pay its way in the world, but seeks to reinvest the profits and caps how much anyone can take out.
(18) The grocer blamed tough competition for the Czech problems, and pointed to the Chinese bird flu crisis and weak demand for pork after a safety scare for its underperformance there.
(19) Now that shopping habits have changed with the arrival of online grocers and the popularity of buying little and often from small local shops, Tesco’s collection of large stores seems more like an albatross around its neck.
(20) His first job was also as an errand boy and assistant in a grocer's shop, from which he moved on to be a junior shop assistant and an early switchboard operator.
Gross
Definition:
(superl.) Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
(superl.) Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
(superl.) Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
(superl.) Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
(superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
(superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
(a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
(sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(2) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(3) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(4) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(5) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(6) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(8) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(9) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(10) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(11) The loss of muscarinic and the sparing of benzodiazepine receptors occurs in the temporal cortex of histologically normal brains in the absence of significant atrophy and of gross dementia.
(12) Affected individuals were not clinically photosensitive, but their fibroblasts demonstrated gross cytopathic changes, low survival indices and an increased frequency of DNA single strand breaks following exposure to long-wave ultraviolet radiation (UVA).
(13) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(14) A tumor measuring 20 x 25 mm was recognized upon gross examination in the upper lobe of the right lung.
(15) No gross toxicological effects were noted in the experimental fish, although their weight gain was less than that of the controls.
(16) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(17) There were no differences in the distribution of gross and histological types of cancer in the modes of recurrence.
(18) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(19) These findings were confirmed by examination of the experimental cases on the basis of the gross diameter of the warts.
(20) Gross examination suggested that TD was present in 80 per cent, 79 per cent and 27 per cent of tibiotarsi from birds on diets 1, 2 and 4, respectively.