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Catering vs Entertainment - What's the difference?

catering | entertainment |

As nouns the difference between catering and entertainment

is that catering is {{cx|uncountable|UK|lang=en}} The business of providing food and related services; foodservice while entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

As a verb catering

is present participle of lang=en.

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.

    Verb

    (head)

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    entertainment

    English

    (wikipedia entertainment)

    Alternative forms

    * entretainment (chiefly archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
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  • a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
  • (obsolete) maintenance or support
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  • Admission into service; service.
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  • (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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    • The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

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