retail

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The selling of goods directly to ordinary customers.

   After leaving the bank, she found a job in retail.

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to selling goods directly to customers.

   The shoes are cheaper online than at the retail price.

3. 3
   verb

   To sell goods directly to customers in small quantities.

   The company retails its products through hundreds of small shops.

4. 4
   adv

   At the price charged to ordinary customers.

   I never pay retail for clothes; I always wait for the sales.

From the Old French verb retaillier.

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