retail
noun
[ ˈriːteɪl ]
• the sale of goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale.
• "the retail trade"
retail
adverb
• being sold by retail or at a retail price.
• "it is not yet available retail"
retail
verb
• sell (goods) to the public by retail.
• "the difficulties in retailing the new products"
• relate or repeat (a story) in detail.
• "his inimitable way of retailing a diverting anecdote"
Origin:
late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French use of Old French retaille ‘a piece cut off’, from retaillier, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tailler ‘to cut’.
