Retail
['riːteɪl] or ['ritel]
Definition
(noun.) the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale.
(verb.) sell on the retail market.
(verb.) be sold at the retail level; 'These gems retail at thousands of dollars each'.
(adv.) at a retail price; 'I'll sell it to you retail only'.
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Definition
(v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
(a.) Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
(n.) To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
(n.) To sell at second hand.
(n.) To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Sell in small quantities.[2]. Deal out in small portions.
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Definition
v.t. to sell or deal out in small parts: to sell in broken parts or at second hand: to hand down by report.—adj. pertaining to retail.—ns. Rē′tail the sale of goods in small quantities; Retail′er; Retail′ment.
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Examples
- The work was a piecemeal, a retail, business. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sliced bacon, fancy sausage and other specialties are usually packed in a separate room, into attractive cartons for the retail trade. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If you wish to buy them by the gross, for retail, go to Milan. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If the tax had been considerable, it would have oppressed the small, and forced almost the whole retail trade into the hands of the great dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The retail use is not required by us; but as our guardian is to be a soldier as well as a philosopher, the military one may be retained. Plato. The Republic.
- The railway workers, the miners, the doctors, the teachers, the retail merchants would have direct representation in the Interessenvertrag. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was said of Gladstone that he was the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer England ever saw, but that as a retail merchant he would soon have ruined himself by his bookkeeping. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She knew stories about every one, which she retailed to their friends at the pitch of her voice; and she was always hunting for a husband for Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They both declared that I was mad, and Lord Alvanly calling on Fanny at that moment, they retailed my folly to his lordship. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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