From theOld French verbretaillier.
- (US)IPA(key): /ˈɹiˌteɪl/,[ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]
- Rhymes:-eɪl
- Hyphenation:re‧tail
retail (uncountable)
- (business) Thesale ofgoodsdirectly to theconsumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
She works inretail.
- (colloquial) Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
I never payretail for clothes.
sale of goods directly to the consumer
- Belarusian:раздро́б m(razdrób)
- Bulgarian:търговия на дребно f(tǎrgovija na drebno)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:零售 (zh)(língshòu)
- Czech:maloobchod m
- Danish:detailhandel c,detailsalg n
- Dutch:detailhandel (nl) m
- Finnish:(activity)vähittäismyynti (fi),(business)vähittäiskauppa (fi)
- French:vente audétail f
- Galician:retallo m,miúdo (gl) m
- Georgian:საცალო გაყიდვა(sacalo gaq̇idva),საცალო ვაჭრობა(sacalo vač̣roba)
- German:Einzelhandel (de) m,Einzelhandelsabsatz m,Kleinverkauf m
- Greek:λιανική (el) f(lianikí),λιανεμπόριο (el) n(lianempório)
- Hebrew:קִמְעוֹנָאוּת (he) f(kim'ona'ut)
- Hungarian:kiskereskedelem (hu)
- Ido:endetalo (io)
- Indonesian:eceran (id)
- Irish:miondíol m
- Italian:venditaal dettaglio
- Japanese:小売 (ja)(こうり, kōri),小売り(こうり, kōri)
- Korean:소매(小賣) (ko)(somae)
- Macedonian:малопродажба f(maloprodažba)
- Malay:runcit
- Maori:hoko whakamutunga
- Mongolian:жижиглэн (mn)(žižiglen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:detaljhandel (no) m
- Nynorsk:detaljhandel m
- Ojibwe:agaasaa-adaawaage
- Polish:handel detaliczny m,detal (pl) m
- Portuguese:varejo (pt) m,retalho (pt)
- Romanian:vânzare cu amănuntul f,vânzare cu bucata
- Russian:ро́зница (ru) f(róznica),ро́зничнаяпрода́жа f(rózničnaja prodáža),ро́зничнаяторго́вля f(rózničnaja torgóvlja)
- Slovak:maloobchod m
- Spanish:venta al por menor f,venta al detalle f,retail m(ríteil, America),minorista f
- Swedish:detaljhandel (sv)
- Tagalog:tingi,pagtitingi,tingian
- Ukrainian:ро́здріб m(rózdrib)
- Vietnamese:bán lẻ (vi)
- Welsh:manwerth m
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retail (notcomparable)
- Of or relating to the (actual or figurative)sale ofgoods orservices directly to individuals.
1997 December 28, “Freddie Mac establishes existing-home sales division”, inDeseret News:"This is a veryretail approach for us," Czerw said. "But when you buy one out of every six home loans in the US, you are going to have a constant flow ..."
1999 December 12, Naedine Joy Hazell, “TRAVEL INSIDER; Airport Malls Redefine 'Shopping on the Fly'”, inLos Angeles Times:The future for Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Conn., also looks veryretail. Plans call for $156 million to expand the main terminal,
2010 September 17, “Sarah Palin's visit to Iowa keeps fans guessing”, inDes Moines Register:But even with her level of celebrity, it would be very hard to win a race without engaging voters in a veryretail way.
2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN:When the New York Post branded Ron DeSantis “DeFuture” in 2022[…], it had not reckoned on the Florida governor being astonishingly awkward with the basics ofretail politics: smiling, shaking hands, interacting with other people.
relating to the sale of goods or services directly to individual consumers
retail
- Direct to consumers, in retailquantities, or at retailprices.
We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only sellingretail now.
retail (third-person singular simple presentretails,present participleretailing,simple past and past participleretailed)
- Tosell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
2005,Plato, translated by Lesley Brown,Sophist, page223d:a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is calledretailing.
- (archaic) To sellsecondhand, or in broken parts.
- To repeat orcirculate (news or rumours) to others.
1934,Agatha Christie, chapter 12, inMurder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published2017, page157:Heretailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo.
1982,Lawrence Durrell,Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published2004, page762:He became quite pale as heretailed these stories to Constance.
1998 February 1,Alan Ryan, “Hot Spots (review ofThe Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff)”, inThe New York Times[2]:The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbsretailed about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlierretailed about the Jews they had murdered.
to sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers
to repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
Borrowed fromEnglishretail, fromOld Frenchretaillier.Doublet ofritel.
rétail (pluralretail-retail)
- retail, the sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them
- Synonyms:ècèran,ketengan
- IPA(key): /ˈriteil/[ˈri.t̪ei̯l]
- Rhymes:-iteil
- Syllabification:re‧tail
retail m (uncountable)
- retail
