RETAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retail mean? 

• RETAIL (noun)
  The noun RETAIL has 1 sense:

1. the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale

  Familiarity information: RETAIL used as a noun is very rare.

• RETAIL (verb)
  The verb RETAIL has 2 senses:

1. be sold at the retail level

2. sell on the retail market

  Familiarity information: RETAIL used as a verb is rare.

• RETAIL (adverb)
  The adverb RETAIL has 1 sense:

1. at a retail price

  Familiarity information: RETAIL used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("retail" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Antonym:

wholesale (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers)

Derivation:

retail (sell on the retail market)

retail (be sold at the retail level)

• RETAIL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they retail    ... he / she / it retails   
Past simple: retailed   
Past participle: retailed   
-ing form: retailing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be sold at the retail level

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

These gems retail at thousands of dollars each

Hypernyms (to "retail" is one way to...):

sell (be sold at a certain price or in a certain way)

Verb group:

retail (sell on the retail market)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

retailing (the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sell on the retail market

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "retail" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Verb group:

retail (be sold at the retail level)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

wholesale (sell in large quantities)

Derivation:

retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

retailer (a merchant who sells goods at retail)

retailing (the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers)

• RETAIL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At a retail price

Context example:

I'll sell it to you retail only

Antonym:

wholesale (at a wholesale price)

 Context examples 

Through a cousin who works with Gelder, he found out the retail firms who had bought the busts.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it was neither in Elinor's power, nor in her wish, to rouse such feelings in another, by her retailed explanation, as had at first been called forth in herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Samples of 32 pairs of children’s socks (from new-borns to aged 48 months) were analysed, having been purchased in three different types of retail outlet, classified according to the price range of their products.

(Nine out of ten pairs of baby socks on the market contain traces of bisphenol A and parabens, University of Granada)

Retailed at a dollar, on a royalty of fifteen per cent, it would bring him one hundred and fifty dollars.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

These preparations happily completed, I bought a little dessert in Covent Garden Market, and gave a rather extensive order at a retail wine-merchant's in that vicinity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Saturn has been in your house of earned income since December 2018 and has been teaching you to be frugal and to buy items below retail whenever possible.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Lead author Kishore Pillai, professor of retail and marketing at UEA's Norwich Business School, said the findings provided insights about nutrition-related consumer attitudes and behaviours and were important given the growing rates of obesity and conditions such as diabetes.

(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In describing to her all the grandeur of Lady Catherine and her mansion, with occasional digressions in praise of his own humble abode, and the improvements it was receiving, he was happily employed until the gentlemen joined them; and he found in Mrs. Phillips a very attentive listener, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The three types were: local bargain retailer (three pairs for €1.50–€1.80); low-cost, fast-fashion international retailer (three pairs for €3.00–€4.50); and a higher-quality international retail clothing brand (three pairs for €6.95–€7.95).

(Nine out of ten pairs of baby socks on the market contain traces of bisphenol A and parabens, University of Granada)