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retailor

retailor is the obsolete spelling of retailer.

Meaning of retailer

Noun

retailer (plural retailers)

  1. A retail sales company or salesman.
    • Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194

Verb

retailor (third-person singular simple present retailors, present participle retailoring, simple past and past participle retailored)

  1. (transitive) To tailor again or anew.

Forms of retailor

Noun
pluralretailors
Verb
third-person singular presentretailors
present participleretailoring
past participleretailored
pastretailored

Origin of retailor

From re- + tailor.

Questions about retailor

What does retailor mean?
Retailor means to tailor again or anew.
What is retailor the obsolete spelling of?
Retailor is the obsolete spelling of retailer.
What part of speech is retailor?
Retailor is a verb.
What is the past tense of retailor?
The past tense of retailor is retailored.

Words near retailor in the dictionary

  1. retailer
  2. retailers
  3. retailing
  4. retailings
  5. retailment
  6. retailor
  7. retailored
  8. retailoring
  9. retailors
  10. retails
  11. retailtainment

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: retailor (page history and authors); retailer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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