retailing

retailing
    n 1: the activities involved in selling commodities directly to
         consumers
    

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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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "retailing":
      accouterment, agency, armament, barter, bartering, brokerage,
      buying and selling, catering, chandlery, consumer preference study,
      consumer research, consumer survey, dealing, direct-mail selling,
      doing business, endowment, equipment, exchange, finding,
      fitting out, furnishing, furnishment, give-and-take, hard sell,
      hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, horse trading, huckstering,
      interchange, investment, jobbing, logistics,
      low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market,
      market research, marketing, marketing research, merchandising,
      outfitting, peddling, preparation, procurement, promotion,
      providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement,
      replenishment, resupply, retail, sales, sales campaign,
      sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell,
      subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, swapping,
      trade, trading, trafficking, victualing, wheeling and dealing,
      wholesale, wholesaling