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Definition of 'retail'Noun
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The sale of goods directly to the consumer; encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them, which are involved in the business of selling and point-of-sale marketing retail goods to the public.
- She works in retail .
(colloquial) Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
- I never pay retail for clothes.
Derived terms
* retailer
Adjective
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Of, or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
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Adverb
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Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.
- ''We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.
Verb
( en-verb)
To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
* 2005 , .
- a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing .
To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 762:
- He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance.
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|title=Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff)
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|date=February 1
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|passage=The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbs retailed' about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlier ' retailed about the Jews they had murdered.}}
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Similar to 'retail'ritual, retell, retool, radial, redeal, ratel, redial, rattail, rathel, rotal, rituall, redtail
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