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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retail \Re"tail\ (r[=e]"t[=a]l), noun [F. retaille piece cut off, shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See {Retail}, v.] The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to {wholesale}; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retail \Re"tail\, adjective Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Retail \Re*tail"\ (r[-e]*t[=a]l"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Retailed};p. pr. & vb. n. {Retailing}.] [Cf. F. retailler to cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See {Retail}, noun, {Tailor}, and cf. {Detail}.]
1. 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.
2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] --Pope.
3. 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. ''To whom I will retail my conquest won.'' --Shak.
He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
retail
adjective: selling or related to selling direct to the consumer; "retail trade"; "retail business"; "retail price" [ant: {wholesale}]
noun: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale [ant: {wholesale}]
adverb: at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only" [ant: {wholesale}]
verb
1: be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"
2: sell on the retail market [ant: {wholesale}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "retail": battologize, be in, bestrew, bill of sale, broadcast, business, carry, circumfuse, close out, commercial, convert into cash, cut under, deal in, deal out, demand, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, dump, effect a sale, fan out, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, handle, industrial, issue, iterate, job, make a sale, market, marketing, mass market, mercantile, merchandise, merchandising, merchant, move, outlet, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pad, practice, propagate, publish, radiate, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, reprint, resell, restate, resume, retailing, retell, review, reword, run over, sacrifice, sale, sales, say over, say over again, scatter, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, selling, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, strew, sum up, summarize, tautologize, tie-in, trade, trade in, trading, traffic in, turn into money, turn over, turnover, undercut, undersell, unload, utter, wholesale, wholesaling
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