retailer
//ˈɹiteɪlɚ//
Forms
- Plural
- retailers
Definitions
1.A retail sales company or salesman.
- Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4675
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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English retail
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English retailer
From retail + -er.