retailing
Syllables: re·tail·ing/ˈɹiːteɪliŋ/
retailing is the present participle and gerund of retail.
Meaning of retail
Verb
retail (third-person singular simple present retails, present participle retailing, simple past and past participle retailed)
- To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
- a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 223d
- To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
- To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
- He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 157
Noun
retailing (countable and uncountable, plural retailings)
- The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail.
- It is not without interest to observe in those remote times, and under a social system so widely different from the modern, the same small causes that ruffle and interrupt the "course of love," which operate so commonly at this day; -- the same inventive jealousy, the same cunning slander, the same...1834, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Bart, The Last Days of Pompeii
- Where abundance is a point, rather than fine fruit for retailings, as in some districts in the South, seedling peaches are preferred to the grafted kinds.1896, Meehans' Monthly
Forms of retailing
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Words formed from retailing
Questions about retailing
- What does retailing mean?
- Retailing means the business of selling directly to the consumer; retail.
- What is retailing the present participle and gerund of?
- Retailing is the present participle and gerund of retail.
- What part of speech is retailing?
- Retailing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce retailing?
- Retailing is pronounced /ˈɹiːteɪliŋ/.
- What is the plural of retailing?
- The plural of retailing is retailings.
Words near retailing in the dictionary
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