Grocery vs Department - What's the difference?
grocery | department |
(usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
* 1776:
* 1850 , '', ''The present time
A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
* 1854:
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
* {{quote-news, year=2014
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* (and other bibliographic particulars), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
A subdivision of an organization.
# One of the principal divisions of executive government
# One of the divisions of instructions
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99 , Penguin 2003, p. 427:
(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
(label) Act of departing; departure.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), Wotton
As nouns the difference between grocery and department
is that grocery is (usually groceries) retail foodstuffs and other household supplies while department is a part, portion, or subdivision.grocery
English
(wikipedia grocery)Noun
(groceries)- Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
- Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?
- I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery , the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
Usage notes
When referring to goods, the singular form is primarily used attributively, as in a grocery bill, a grocery list, etc. The plural form, groceries, is much more frequently used to refer to actual goods, especially in the US.Synonyms
* (retail foodstuffs and household supplies) commodities, general goods, groceries, packaged goods * (store that sells groceries) general store, grocery store, market, supermarketReferences
department
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department .}}
- the Treasury Department'''''; ''the '''Department''' of Agriculture''; ''police '''department
- the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- sudden 'departments from one extreme to another
