groceryの意味・使い方・発音

grocery

英 ['grəʊs(ə)rɪ] 美 ['ɡrosəri]

grocery (n.): mid-15c., "goods sold by a grocer;" earlier the name of the Grocer's Hall in London (early 15c.), from Old French grosserie, from grossier "wholesale merchant" (see grocer). Meaning "a grocer's shop" is by 1803, especially in American English, where its use in that sense restricted the "goods sold by a grocer" meaning to the plural, groceries, by mid-19c.
GROCERY. A grocer's shop. This word is not in the English dictionaries except in the sense of grocer's ware, such as tea, sugar, spice, etc.; in which sense we also use it in the plural. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1859]
Self-service groceries were a novelty in 1913 when a Montana, U.S., firm copyrighted the word groceteria (with the ending from cafeteria used in an un-etymological sense) to name them. The term existed through the 1920s.

1. I worked stocking shelves in a grocery store.: 私は雑貨屋で働いていて、棚に荷物を運ぶ責任を負っています。

2.He was employed at the local grocery store as a delivery boy.: 彼は地元の雑貨店で配達員として雇われている。

3. Grocery stores sell many foods that have been processed.: 食品雑貨店では、多くの加工食品を販売しています。

4.There hangs straight on the wall of this grocery a service pledge.: この惣菜店は壁の端にサービス条約がきちんと掛けられている。