catering

The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.PhilippinesUKuncountable

The business of providing such services for special occasions.USuncountable

The act of one who caters (to something).countable

• 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.

present participle and gerund of caterform-ofgerundparticiple