# retail
## English
### Etymology

From the Old French verb retaillier.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈɹiˌteɪl/, [ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪl
* Hyphenation: re‧tail

### Noun

retail (uncountable)
* (business) 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.
    She works in retail.
* (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 pay retail for clothes.

#### Antonyms

* wholesale

#### Derived terms

* e-retail
* hyperphysical retail
* retail apocalypse
* retail bank
* retail banking
* retailer
* retail park
* retail pharmacy
* retail politics
* retail price
* retail theft
* retail therapy

#### See also

* wholesale
* click and collect

### Adjective

retail (not comparable)
* Of or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
** 1997 December 28, “Freddie Mac establishes existing-home sales division”, in Deseret News:"This is a very retail 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'”, in Los Angeles Times:The future for Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Conn., also looks very retail. Plans call for $156 million to expand the main terminal,
** 2010 September 17, “Sarah Palin's visit to Iowa keeps fans guessing”, in Des Moines Register:But even with her level of celebrity, it would be very hard to win a race without engaging voters in a very retail way.
** 2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian‎, →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 of retail politics: smiling, shaking hands, interacting with other people.

#### Translations
### Adverb

retail
* Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.
    We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.

#### Translations
### Verb

retail (third-person singular simple present retails, present participle retailing, simple past and past participle retailed)
* To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
** 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 223d:a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing.
* (archaic) To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
* To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
** 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 157:He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo.
** 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 762:He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance.
** 1998 February 1, Alan Ryan, “Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff)”, in The New York Times‎:The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbs retailed about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlier retailed about the Jews they had murdered.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Altier, airtel, aliter, iteral, lirate, retial, tailer

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* ritel

### Etymology

Borrowed from English retail, from Old French retaillier. Doublet of ritel.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /reˈtail/ [reˈt̪a.ɪl]
* Rhymes: -ail
* Syllabification: re‧tail

### Noun

rétail (plural retail-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
* runcit: Indonesian, Standard Malay

### Further reading

* “retail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈriteil/ [ˈri.t̪ei̯l]
* Rhymes: -iteil
* Syllabification: re‧tail

### Noun

retail m (uncountable)
* retail

### Further reading

* retail | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE