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Catering vs Canteen - What's the difference?

catering | canteen |

As nouns the difference between catering and canteen

is that catering is {{cx|uncountable|UK|lang=en}} The business of providing food and related services; foodservice while canteen is a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work.

As a verb catering

is present participle of lang=en.

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.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

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    canteen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work
  • a temporary or mobile used in an emergency or on a film location etc
  • a box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc
  • a military mess kit
  • a water bottle used by a soldier or camper
  • Derived terms

    * canteen culture