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Noun: retailing  'ree,tey-ling
  1. The activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers
Verb: retail  'ree,teyl
  1. Be sold at the retail level
    "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"
     
  2. Sell on the retail market
Verb: retail[2]  ri'teyl or 'ree,teyl
  1. Narrate or give a detailed account of
    "retail[2] what happened";
    - tell, narrate, recount, recite

Derived forms: retailings

Type of: flog [Brit, informal], inform, marketing, merchandising, sell, selling

Antonym: wholesale

Encyclopedia: Retailing

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union