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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("retail" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Antonym:

wholesale (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers)

Derivation:

retail (sell on the retail market)

retail (be sold at the retail level)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell on the retail market

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "retail" is one way to...):

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Verb group:

retail (be sold at the retail level)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

wholesale (sell in large quantities)

Derivation:

retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

retailer (a merchant who sells goods at retail)

retailing (the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be sold at the retail level

Example:

These gems retail at thousands of dollars each

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "retail" is one way to...):

sell (be sold at a certain price or in a certain way)

Verb group:

retail (sell on the retail market)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

retailing (the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers)

 III. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At a retail price

Example:

I'll sell it to you retail only

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

wholesale (at a wholesale price)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Saturn will move into Aquarius permanently from December 16, 2020, to March 7, 2023, and give you an MBA in finance, but no worries—you are about to get very savvy about negotiating for yourself, buying expensive items below retail, and learning how to better earn, spend, save, and invest money, so by March 2023, you’ll likely end up with more savings and wealth than you ever had when Saturn first arrived in December 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)