Retail \Re"tail\ (r[=e]"t[=a]l), n. [F. retaille piece cut off,
   shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See Retail,
   v.]
   The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; --
   opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at
   second hand.
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	Retail \Re"tail\, a.
   Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail
   trade; a retail grocer.
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	Retail \Re*tail"\ (r[-e]*t[=a]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Retailed;p. pr. & vb. n. Retailing.] [Cf. F. retailler to
   cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See Retail, n.,
   Tailor, and cf. Detail.]
   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.
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   2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] --Pope.
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   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.
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            He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares
            At wakes and wassails.                --Shak.
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	retail
    adv 1: at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only"
           [ant: wholesale]
    n 1: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small
         quantities and not for resale [ant: wholesale]
    v 1: be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at
         thousands of dollars each"
    2: sell on the retail market [ant: wholesale]

	

	110 Moby Thesaurus words for "retail":
   battologize, be in, bestrew, bill of sale, broadcast, business,
   carry, circumfuse, close out, commercial, convert into cash,
   cut under, deal in, deal out, demand, diffract, diffuse, dispense,
   disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, dump,
   effect a sale, fan out, fill, give an encore, go over, go through,
   handle, industrial, issue, iterate, job, make a sale, market,
   marketing, mass market, mercantile, merchandise, merchandising,
   merchant, move, outlet, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pad,
   practice, propagate, publish, radiate, reaffirm, reassert,
   recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue,
   reiterate, reprint, resell, restate, resume, retailing, retell,
   review, reword, run over, sacrifice, sale, sales, say over,
   say over again, scatter, sell, sell off, sell on consignment,
   sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up,
   sell wholesale, selling, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread,
   spread out, strew, sum up, summarize, tautologize, tie-in, trade,
   trade in, trading, traffic in, turn into money, turn over,
   turnover, undercut, undersell, unload, utter, wholesale,
   wholesaling

	

	RETAIL. To sell by retail, is to sell by small parcels, and not in the 
gross. 5 N. S. 279.