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Banqueting vs Catering - What's the difference?

banqueting | catering |

As verbs the difference between banqueting and catering

is that banqueting is present participle of banquet while catering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between banqueting and catering

is that banqueting is the act of holding a banquet for a person or group while catering is {{cx|uncountable|UK|lang=en}} The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.

banqueting

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of holding a banquet for a person or group
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Charles and Mary Lamb, title=The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV, chapter=John Woodvil: A Tragedy, edition= citation
    • , passage=Tis not to sit In place of worship at the royal masques, Their pastimes, plays, and Whitehall banquetings , For none of these, Nor yet to be seen whispering with some great one, Do I affect the favours of the court. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is no proof of generosity (say the objectors) to take the bread of the laborer, to lavish it in banquetings on the rich. }}

    catering

    English

    (wikipedia catering)

    Noun

  • The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  • The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  • The act of one who caters (to something).
  • * 1864 , J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
    • Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

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