retail

English

Etymology

From the Old French verb retaillier.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiˌteɪl/, [ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

retail (uncountable)

1. (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.

2. (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

 

Translations

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 au détail 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: vendita al 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), ро́зничная прода́жа f (rózničnaja prodáža), ро́зничная торго́вля 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

retail price

• Bulgarian: цена на дребно f (cena na drebno)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零售價／零售价 (língshòujià)

• Dutch: adviesprijs (nl) m
• Finnish: vähittäismyyntihinta, vähittäishinta (fi)
• Hebrew: מְחִיר קִמְעוֹנָאִי m (mehir kim'ona'i)
• Hungarian: fogyasztói ár
• Japanese: 小売価格 (こうりかかく, kōri kakaku)
• Russian: ро́зничная цена́ f (rózničnaja cená)

See also

• wholesale
• click and collect

Adjective

retail (not comparable)

1. 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^[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 of retail politics: smiling, shaking hands, interacting with other people.

Translations

relating to the sale of goods or services directly to individual consumers

• Belarusian: ро́знічны (rózničny), раздро́бны (razdróbny)
• Bulgarian: на дребно (na drebno)
• Finnish: vähittäismyynti-
• Greek: λιανικός (el) (lianikós)
• Hebrew: קִמְעוֹנָאִי (he) (kim'ona'i), קִמְעוֹנָאִית f (kim'ona'it)
• Hindi: फुटकर (hi) (phuṭkar)
• Ido: endetala (io)
• Indonesian: ecer (id)
• Italian: al dettaglio
• Malay: runcit
• Polish: detaliczny (pl)
• Russian: ро́зничный (ru) (rózničnyj)
• Telugu: చిల్లర (te) (cillara)
• Ukrainian: роздрібни́й (rozdribnýj)

Adverb

retail

1. Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.

   We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.

Translations

in retail quantities

• Bulgarian: на дребно (na drebno)
• Finnish: vähittäin
• Georgian: ცალობით (calobit)
• Greek: λιανικά (el) (lianiká)
• Ido: endetale (io)
• Italian: al dettaglio
• Polish: detalicznie
• Russian: в ро́зницу (v róznicu)
• Tagalog: tingian

Verb

retail (third-person singular simple present retails, present participle retailing, simple past and past participle retailed)

1. 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.

2. (archaic) To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
3. 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^[2]:

     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

to sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers

• Bulgarian: продавам на дребно (prodavam na drebno)
• Finnish: harjoittaa vähittäiskauppaa, myydä vähittäin
• French: vendre au détail
• Galician: miudar
• Georgian: ცალობით გაყიდვა (calobit gaq̇idva)
• Indonesian: mengecer (id)
• Italian: vendere al dettaglio
• Portuguese: vender a varejo
• Russian: продава́ть в ро́зницу impf (prodavátʹ v róznicu)
• Tagalog: magtingi

to repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.

• Bulgarian: разпространявам (bg) (razprostranjavam)
• Finnish: levittää (fi) (to many, to anyone who listens), kertoa (fi) (to chosen few)

Anagrams

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [reˈtaɪl]
• Hyphenation: ré‧ta‧il

Noun

rétail (first-person possessive retailku, second-person possessive retailmu, third-person possessive retailnya)

1. 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.

Alternative forms

• ritel

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

Noun

retail m (uncountable)

1. retail

Further reading

• retail | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE