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- noun Plural form of
greengrocery .
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Examples
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Mr. Raggles himself had to supply the greengroceries.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Mr. Raggles himself had to supply the greengroceries.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He's never worked in the City, he's not registered with the FSA, and he's about as much of a "trader" as the bloke selling greengroceries in my local farmers' market.
The Guardian World News The Yes Men 2011
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He's never worked in the City, he's not registered with the FSA, and he's about as much of a "trader" as the bloke selling greengroceries in my local farmers' market.
The Guardian World News The Yes Men 2011
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The high street's Asian greengroceries were all trading busily, with families out shopping in the warm weather and plenty of children on school holidays darting about.
The Guardian World News Sam Jones 2011
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Are British universities now, as Terry Eagleton believes, no more than "intellectual Tescos, churning out a commodity known as graduates rather than greengroceries"?
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Are British universities now, as Terry Eagleton believes, no more than "intellectual Tescos, churning out a commodity known as graduates rather than greengroceries"?
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Apples are well known to be among the most easily hybridised of fruits, explaining the many varieties in the world's greengroceries.
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They toil in the basements of Korean-American-owned greengroceries in New York City.
CounterPunch 2009
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They toil in the basements of Korean-American-owned greengroceries in New York City.
CounterPunch 2009
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