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.
