- the selling of goods to the public, usually through shops
- The recommended retail price is £9.99.
- department stores and other retail outlets
- the retail trade
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessb2, Shoppingb2- producing goods for retail
- profits in the company's high street retail outlets
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRetail is used before these nouns:- analyst
- banking
- business
- …
Word Originlate 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’.Definitions on the go
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