local grocery

collocation in English

meaningsoflocalandgrocery

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local
adjective
uk
/ˈləʊ.kəl/us
/ˈloʊ.kəl/
from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of ...
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grocery
noun
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.sər.i/us
/ˈɡroʊ.sɚ.i/
old-fashioned;
a ...
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(Definition oflocalandgroceryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflocal grocery

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Hires fry sauce can be found inlocalgrocerystores around the state.
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Home ingredients are picked up fromlocalgrocerystores and independent produce shops, although supermarkets have become progressively more popular.
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Worlingham has a limited range of shops including alocalgroceryand sub-post office, hairdresser, fish and chip shop, pharmacy and small newsagent.
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Food supply was augmented by regular trips tolocalgrocerybins and skips, some residents describing themselves as freegans.
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Towne was alocalgrocerystore owner for several decades, a business founded by his father in the early 1900s.
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The findings of the present study indicated that consumers were interested in buying local foods directly from farmers, from farmers' markets, fromlocalgrocerystores and from local restaurants.
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A number oflocalgrocerystores have been supplying drink to children aged between 12 and 14.
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That is a return to thelocalgroceryshop concept that was so prevalent decades ago.
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I can assure him that if he comes to my constituency the owners of smalllocalgroceryand sweet and tobacconist shops are not taking £500 a week, or £50,000 a year.
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The museum's shop is designed to represent alocalgrocerystore from the first half of the 20th century.
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Beer and wine may be sold inlocalgrocerystores unless the town in which it is located has voted dry at their town meeting.
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His parents owned and operated alocalgrocerystore.
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The tickets were to be presented atlocalgroceryshops.
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Raven's also markets its own line of meat seasonings that is sold atlocalgrocerystores.
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His business started in a small, wooden greenhouse, where he cultivated a small crop of tomatoes to sell atlocalgrocerystores.
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The town mostly receives food products from subsistence farming orlocalgrocerymarkets.
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To sustain an eight-day voyage at sea, the group's supply officer bought fresh and dry supplies fromlocalgrocerystores.
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At alocalgrocerystore, he uses a $100 bill to make a purchase.
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He also worked for alocalgrocerystore, starting as a bagger and then in less than two years becoming the night manager.
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The pundits could not believe an artist would reduce the art form to the equivalent of a trip to thelocalgrocerystore.
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