Collocation
buy groceries
Definition
to purchase food and household items from a store for regular use at home
'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
- I have to _____ groceries tonight.
- Can you _____ groceries on your way home?
- We usually _____ groceries every Saturday morning.
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- She _____ groceries at the local market yesterday.
- I’m going to _____ groceries before the store closes.
- They _____ groceries online when they don’t have time to go out.
- If we _____ groceries in bulk, we can save money.
- By the time you get here, I’ll have _____ groceries for dinner.
- He forgot to _____ groceries, so the fridge was almost empty.
More verb + noun (plural)s
- 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
- increase sales to make the amount or value of products/services sold go up