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retails

retails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retail.

Meaning of retail

Verb

retail (third-person singular simple present retails, present participle retailing, simple past and past participle retailed)

  1. 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
  2. (archaic) To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
  3. 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

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Questions about retails

What is retails the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Retails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retail.

Words near retails in the dictionary

  1. retailment
  2. retailor
  3. retailored
  4. retailoring
  5. retailors
  6. retails
  7. retailtainment
  8. retain
  9. retain and explain
  10. retainability
  11. retainable

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