Collocation
buy groceries
to purchase food and household items from a store for regular use at home
Definition
'buy groceries' is a common English collocation. to purchase food and household items from a store for regular use at home
buy + groceries
“I need to buy groceries after work.”
Examples
- We usually buy groceries on Saturday morning.
- Can you buy groceries for dinner tonight?
- I forgot to buy groceries, so we are out of milk and eggs.
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- She stopped by the store to buy groceries on her way home.
- They buy groceries online when the weather is bad.
- I will buy groceries in bulk to save money this month.
- He had to buy groceries for the whole week because the fridge was empty.
- Before the trip, we bought groceries and packed snacks for the road.
More verb + noun (plural)s
- make plans to decide and arrange what you will do in the future, often with other people
- make arrangements to plan and organize the details for something so it can happen
- train employees to teach workers the skills and knowledge they need to do their jobs well
- meet expectations to do as well as people hoped or required; to satisfy what is expected
- exceed expectations to do better than people expected; to outperform what was anticipated