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to retail

to retail

14 2.9
Sell goods to the public in small amounts for people to use
  • verb
  • /ˈriːteɪl/
translation icon : vender al por menor
  • Scion retails for $249, an affordable price for most science department budgets.
  • a product retails

So this is full size and this retails for guys.

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Examples

  • Now this one retails at 20 Pounds 50.

    Bob Roberts (1992)

  • Now, this type retails at 12 Pounds 50, and is made in England.

    Bob Roberts (1992)

  • We retail it for $19.95.

    Remember Me (2010)

  • You got to have a credible way to to channel it or retail it into the customer's hands.

  • It, uh, was supposed to retail for $750.

    The Burial (2023)

  • The product retails for $34.95 and is suitable for all grade levels.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Today the toothpaste was less than $2 a tube; normally, it retails for around $2.50.

    Blog text (22)

  • The WEI to Go Sleep Over Kit retails for $19 on the Birchbox website.

    Blog text (12)

  • A large frame microscope retails for $239.95, and a 1000X microscope with illuminator for $269.95.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The new smartphone will retail for $999 when it launches next month.

Synonyms

to retailor
vsto retail
  • US
3.6

To sell things directly to customers in a shop or online

focuses on sales in small quantities for personal use rather than wholesale

Antonyms

to wholesale
3 3.7

To sell goods in large amounts to shops or other businesses

Compounds

retail store
27 1.0

A shop that sells goods in small amounts directly to people

retail price
14 1.8

The amount a customer pays in a store that includes the store's extra charge

retail chain
4 2.8

A group of stores owned or run by the same company that sell similar goods

retail market
2 2.9

A place where shops or websites sell things and services directly to customers

retail marketing
  • Specialized
1 3.4

To tell people about goods and sell them directly to customers in shops or online

retail merchant
2.8

A person or company that sells goods to people in small amounts for them to use

retail price index
  • UK
5.0

An official measure of how consumer prices change over time

How Available

to retail
14 2.9
to launch
504 3.7
to introduce
520 2.1
pilot
  • Jargon
110 4.6

Surface Forms

retail infinitive
retailed past
retailed past participle
retailing present participle
retails third person singular

Etymology

Retail comes from a French verb made of re- ('again') and a root meaning 'to cut', and it shares that root with tailor, who cuts cloth. The picture of cutting goods into small pieces helps: to retail something is to sell it in small amounts to the public.