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Noun: retailing  'ree,tey-ling
  1. The activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers
    "The company shifted its focus from manufacturing to retailing"
Verb: retail  'ree,teyl
  1. Sell on the retail market
    "They retail organic produce at farmers' markets"; "The company retails its products directly to consumers"
     
  2. Be sold at the retail level
    "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"
Verb: retail[2]  ri'teyl or 'ree,teyl
  1. Narrate or give a detailed account of
    "He retail[2]ed the entire conversation to his friends";
    - tell, narrate, recount, recite

Derived forms: retailings

Type of: flog [Brit, informal], inform, sell

Antonym: wholesale

Encyclopedia: Retailing

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union