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Definition of retail in English: retailnoun ˈriːteɪlˈriˌteɪl mass nounThe sale of goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale. as modifier the retail trade Example sentencesExamples - While some consumers remain stringently brand loyal, private label products account for 50 percent of retail butter sales.
- So our peak performance has nothing to do with expanded retail trade, although retail trade productivity has grown a lot.
- While most publishers don't sell to retail customers via the Internet, they do accept wholesale orders from galleries and art dealers.
- With ‘buy now, pay later’ offers you usually end up paying a lot more for a product than its regular retail price.
- Stumbling retail sales indicate consumers are losing faith in a rebound and are reining in spending - a possible precursor to slower home sales.
- Sheehy is a career banker whose progress through the ranks has been mainly within retail banking.
- Moreover, the drop in gasoline prices made June retail sales look softer than they really were.
- Various laws, often imposed by the states, restrained price competition in retail trade.
- The then commonplace conclusion was that taxes on retail sales would be passed on to consumers.
- Some seed companies are selling more through retail outlets, which cuts into the customer base of their existing dealers.
- ‘They tend to locate in shopping centres and they have not taken retail warehousing space to date,’ said Miller.
- A question on the sales of retail life products since the start of the year was brushed aside.
- To survive I had to branch out into retail advertising, public relations, and nonprofit agencies.
- The retail price is just under $100, which is rather inexpensive for its deluxe features.
- Yet the move has backfired because the figures also reveal that its retail market share has dropped to under 40 per cent.
- It also potentially hurts milk consumption by spurring retail prices upward.
- The model was examined in the context of a consumer relationship with two retail service brands.
- There is also an over-the-counter market where retail investors can pick up bonds.
- The upsurge in demand for organic produce has led all the major retail outlets to recognize sales potential in the organic sector.
- Some distributors opted to raise prices they charged retail customers rather than wait for payments.
adverb ˈriːteɪlˈriˌteɪl Being sold by retail or at a retail price. it is not yet available retail
verb ˈriːteɪlˈriˌteɪl [with object]1Sell (goods) to the public by retail. the difficulties in retailing the new products Example sentencesExamples - But niche retailing is not about retailing a single product but a specialisation in a particular product type.
- Of course, Amazon is about much more than books and music, thanks to its decision to move into retailing a vast array of products.
- It's not just ‘Dave selling bandwidth,’ but Dave retailing the services of a top-notch provider.
- In these promotions, the state rewarded consumers with material things and consumers aided the state through consumption of items produced or retailed by state enterprises.
- Further, there is little hard evidence available on the output of provision grounds and gardens, and much of this produce was in any case retailed by the slaves in public markets and not necessarily consumed or exchanged for food items.
- In addition to selling direct to his neighbors, Grant retails the products of his farm at a number of local farmers' markets and food co-ops.
Synonyms sell, stock, keep, keep in stock, offer, have for sale, have, market, supply, trade in, deal in, traffic in, peddle, hawk - 1.1retail at/forno object (of goods) be sold by retail for (a specified price)
the product retails for around £20 Example sentencesExamples - According to Tesco, the company has initiated a series of major price cuts in Irish supermarkets in the past two years, with its own-label milk, bread, butter and sugar now retailing at prices lower than those of September 2000.
- But its high-end product line, with each piece of equipment retailing at prices from $650,000 to $3 million, was expensive to produce.
- Fifteen years in the making, Mr Dyson's cleaners stormed British homes in the 1990s, despite retailing at almost double the price of more established brands.
- In particular, the price of green onions more than tripled, to NT $300 per kilogram, while tomatoes and sweet peppers retailed for double their usual price.
- The boots normally retail at £80.90, including delivery.
- The ball promised to be one of the big events for that night, with tickets that were retailing at the price of two weeks' salary, all proceeds going to charity, of course, and a guest list that read like a ‘who's who’ of New York City.
- They normally retail for $250, but health clubs can purchase 20 or more for $195 each.
- There's nothing to hold them back now, and with the lowest processors in the chain all retailing at the same price, there seems to be no end to the upscale.
- In Toronto, I spotted ice wine retailing at double the price of good quality imports from France.
- If 48 tracks seems excessive, this retails at standard single-CD price and reveals unexpected depth to an often overlooked artist.
Synonyms be priced at, sell at, retail at, go for, be, be found for, be trading at, cost
2Relate or repeat (a story) in detail. his inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote Example sentencesExamples - Sorensen retails an anecdote of Smollett walking with another Scot in London around the time of the battle of Culloden, their swords drawn, Smollett warning his companion to keep his mouth shut lest the mob recognize his Scottish accent.
- It is against this backdrop of an already emerging consensus that we must evaluate the famous anecdote retailed by Jefferson about the dinner bargain that set the capital on the Potomac.
- I proceeded to retail my meeting with Derek from beginning to end; Jenny listened eagerly, chewing on the nail of her index finger.
- His work, completed about 1469, retailed the story as a tragedy.
- He therefore lays little stress on geographical wonders, and in searching for detailed information retails long passages of by then out-of-date description, which can make the interpretation of his evidence very hazardous.
Synonyms tell, recount, narrate, give an account of, describe
Origin Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French use of Old French retaille 'a piece cut off', from retaillier, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tailler 'to cut'. Retail is from an Anglo-Norman French use of Old French retaille ‘a piece cut off’, from tailler ‘to cut’, from selling in small quantities, as opposed to the large quantities of wholesale (Late Middle English). See also engross
Definition of retail in US English: retailnounˈrēˌtālˈriˌteɪl The sale of goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale. as modifier the product's retail price Example sentencesExamples - To survive I had to branch out into retail advertising, public relations, and nonprofit agencies.
- Some distributors opted to raise prices they charged retail customers rather than wait for payments.
- Stumbling retail sales indicate consumers are losing faith in a rebound and are reining in spending - a possible precursor to slower home sales.
- While most publishers don't sell to retail customers via the Internet, they do accept wholesale orders from galleries and art dealers.
- While some consumers remain stringently brand loyal, private label products account for 50 percent of retail butter sales.
- The then commonplace conclusion was that taxes on retail sales would be passed on to consumers.
- The upsurge in demand for organic produce has led all the major retail outlets to recognize sales potential in the organic sector.
- Yet the move has backfired because the figures also reveal that its retail market share has dropped to under 40 per cent.
- Moreover, the drop in gasoline prices made June retail sales look softer than they really were.
- A question on the sales of retail life products since the start of the year was brushed aside.
- The model was examined in the context of a consumer relationship with two retail service brands.
- It also potentially hurts milk consumption by spurring retail prices upward.
- Various laws, often imposed by the states, restrained price competition in retail trade.
- Sheehy is a career banker whose progress through the ranks has been mainly within retail banking.
- ‘They tend to locate in shopping centres and they have not taken retail warehousing space to date,’ said Miller.
- With ‘buy now, pay later’ offers you usually end up paying a lot more for a product than its regular retail price.
- The retail price is just under $100, which is rather inexpensive for its deluxe features.
- There is also an over-the-counter market where retail investors can pick up bonds.
- So our peak performance has nothing to do with expanded retail trade, although retail trade productivity has grown a lot.
- Some seed companies are selling more through retail outlets, which cuts into the customer base of their existing dealers.
adverbˈrēˌtālˈriˌteɪl Being sold by retail or at a retail price. it is not yet available retail
verbˈrēˌtālˈriˌteɪl [with object]1Sell (goods) to the public by retail. the difficulties in retailing the new products Example sentencesExamples - In these promotions, the state rewarded consumers with material things and consumers aided the state through consumption of items produced or retailed by state enterprises.
- It's not just ‘Dave selling bandwidth,’ but Dave retailing the services of a top-notch provider.
- Of course, Amazon is about much more than books and music, thanks to its decision to move into retailing a vast array of products.
- But niche retailing is not about retailing a single product but a specialisation in a particular product type.
- Further, there is little hard evidence available on the output of provision grounds and gardens, and much of this produce was in any case retailed by the slaves in public markets and not necessarily consumed or exchanged for food items.
- In addition to selling direct to his neighbors, Grant retails the products of his farm at a number of local farmers' markets and food co-ops.
Synonyms sell, stock, keep, keep in stock, offer, have for sale, have, market, supply, trade in, deal in, traffic in, peddle, hawk - 1.1retail at/forno object (of goods) be sold by retail for (a specified price)
the product retails for around $20 Example sentencesExamples - In particular, the price of green onions more than tripled, to NT $300 per kilogram, while tomatoes and sweet peppers retailed for double their usual price.
- Fifteen years in the making, Mr Dyson's cleaners stormed British homes in the 1990s, despite retailing at almost double the price of more established brands.
- But its high-end product line, with each piece of equipment retailing at prices from $650,000 to $3 million, was expensive to produce.
- They normally retail for $250, but health clubs can purchase 20 or more for $195 each.
- The boots normally retail at £80.90, including delivery.
- There's nothing to hold them back now, and with the lowest processors in the chain all retailing at the same price, there seems to be no end to the upscale.
- The ball promised to be one of the big events for that night, with tickets that were retailing at the price of two weeks' salary, all proceeds going to charity, of course, and a guest list that read like a ‘who's who’ of New York City.
- According to Tesco, the company has initiated a series of major price cuts in Irish supermarkets in the past two years, with its own-label milk, bread, butter and sugar now retailing at prices lower than those of September 2000.
- If 48 tracks seems excessive, this retails at standard single-CD price and reveals unexpected depth to an often overlooked artist.
- In Toronto, I spotted ice wine retailing at double the price of good quality imports from France.
Synonyms be priced at, sell at, retail at, go for, be, be found for, be trading at, cost
2Relate or repeat (a story) in detail. his inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote Example sentencesExamples - He therefore lays little stress on geographical wonders, and in searching for detailed information retails long passages of by then out-of-date description, which can make the interpretation of his evidence very hazardous.
- I proceeded to retail my meeting with Derek from beginning to end; Jenny listened eagerly, chewing on the nail of her index finger.
- Sorensen retails an anecdote of Smollett walking with another Scot in London around the time of the battle of Culloden, their swords drawn, Smollett warning his companion to keep his mouth shut lest the mob recognize his Scottish accent.
- It is against this backdrop of an already emerging consensus that we must evaluate the famous anecdote retailed by Jefferson about the dinner bargain that set the capital on the Potomac.
- His work, completed about 1469, retailed the story as a tragedy.
Synonyms tell, recount, narrate, give an account of, describe
Origin Late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French use of Old French retaille ‘a piece cut off’, from retaillier, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tailler ‘to cut’. |