retailer
/ˈriːteɪlə
/noun
1A person or business that sells goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale: the big supermarkets have forced many independent retailers out of business Europe’s biggest fashion retailer...
- The soybean seed treatment business will continue to be the growth market for retailers, followed by wheat.
- I recently met with the management team of a successful retailer.
- The lawsuit is not expected to affect availability of product for retailers during the introductory season next year.
2A person who relates the details of a story or incident to others: as a writer I see myself as a retailer of Big Ideas...
- She is an excellent retailer of stories.
- Certain changes of language rendered it impossible for the retailer of the story to collect a sufficiently large audience.
- The retailer of the anecdote intends it to impart a message, the success of which depends on the degree to which the hearer regards the anecdote as factual.
Rhymes
- colour chart
- colour chest
- colour chord
- colour circle
- colour-coated
- colour code
- colour commentary
- colour commentator
- colour-conscious
- colour consciousness
- colour constancy
- colour contrast
- colour-coordinate
- colour-coordinated
- colour-coordinating
- colour coordination
- colour-correct
- colour-corrected
- colour correction
- colour cup
- colour-defective
- colour-de-roy
- colour diagram
- colour difference
- colour disc