retail
retail is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.
- 2.To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] Pope.
- 3.To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. "To whom I will retail my conquest won." Shak. He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails. Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- auction
- auctioneer
- bring
- chose
- counter
- custom
- deal
- demi
- dispense
- disposal
- dispose
- effect
- est
- for
- hammer
- hawk
- into
- let
- market
- marketable
- merchant
- money
- mortgage
- off
- offer
- out
- outcry
- over
- plait
- put
- realize
- roup
- salable
- sale
- security
- sell
- seller
- the
- traffic
- turn
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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