Word Meanings - RETAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETAIL)

• Hawk
• Sell
• peddle
• retail
• Mercantile
• Commercial
• Interchangeable
• wholesale
• marketable
• Vend
• hawk
• dispose of

Related words: (words related to RETAIL)

• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• COMMERCIAL
  Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• DISPOSED
  1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer.
• PEDDLER
  One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.
• RETAILMENT
  The act of retailing.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• MARKETABLE
  1. Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable. 2. Current in market; as, marketable value. 3. Wanted by purchasers; salable; as, furs are not marketable in that country.
• PEDDLERY
  1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler. 2. Trifling; trickery. "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.
• MERCANTILE
  Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an
• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• RETAILER
  One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
• COMMERCIALISM
  The commercial spirit or method. C. Kingsley.
• DISPOSER
  One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• INTERCHANGEABLE
  1. Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon. 2. Following each other in alternate succession; as, the four interchangeable seasons. Holder. -- In`ter*change"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`ter*change"a*bly, adv.
• PEDDLE
  1. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license. 2. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• FOREDISPOSE
  To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.
• REDISPOSE
  To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.
• PREDISPOSE
  1. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. 2. To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes
• INDISPOSE
  1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. 2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton. 3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes
• FIRETAIL
  The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.