retail
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
retail
adv 1: at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only"
[ant: {wholesale}]
n 1: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small
quantities and not for resale [ant: {wholesale}]
v 1: be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at
thousands of dollars each"
2: sell on the retail market [ant: {wholesale}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Retail \Re*tail"\ (r[-e]*t[=a]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Retailed};p. pr. & vb. n. {Retailing}.] [Cf. F. retailler to
cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See {Retail}, n.,
{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.
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2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] --Pope.
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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.
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He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares
At wakes and wassails. --Shak.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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