is there a grocery store nearby
Indicates that the speaker wants to know whether a grocery store is nearby.
noun
Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the grocery trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
1854: Henry David Thoreau, Walden I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
verb
To go grocery shopping.
We shopped and groceried on a cash basis, determined on that from the start.
The thought of grocerying so casually at Seessel's evokes a giggle from Shirley
To furnish with groceries.
Fifty-eight years of grocerying hotels, restaurants and institutions that feed many people
What freedom to be iced, fueled, and groceried for two weeks and running toward a reef you truly love