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BEV-uh-rij/ˈbevərɪdʒ/

A beverage is a drink, especially in formal, catering, or labelling English: a hot beverage; food and beverages. Drink is the everyday twin; water may be excluded on a menu that lists “beverages” as tea, coffee, and juice. Name the beverage in the nutrition table, then the sugar per 100 ml. Mix-up: beverage vs average; brew (a related headword); do not write beverage for a soup or a medicine unless the source labels it as a drink.

Meaning

A drink, especially one other than water (formal or labelling English).

Examples

• “Name the beverage in the nutrition table, then the sugar per 100 ml, not a brand slogan.”
• “Food and beverages featured as a line in the accounts, which is the catering-cost sense.”

Good to know

a hot / cold beverage; food and beverages. Everyday: drink. Trap: average. Nutrition, catering, and accounts. A drink in formal or label English, not a slogan.

Near in meaning

drink, refreshment

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