Provides food and drinks for an event, or more broadly, provides what someone needs or wants.
From French cater or caterer, possibly from Old Norse. The word entered English around the 1600s as the food service industry grew.
The original 'caterers' were people who bought food wholesale and sold it at markets—they were the middlemen of the medieval economy, which is why the word carries the idea of 'supplying what's needed'!
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