Retail

From the Old French verb retaillier.

Full definition of retail

(uncountable)

The sale of goods directly to the consumer; encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them, which are involved in the business of selling and point-of-sale marketing retail goods to the public.She works in retail.
(colloquial) Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.I never pay retail for clothes.

Of, or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.

1997, December 28, "This is a very retail approach for us," Czerw said. "But when you buy one out of every six home loans in the US, you are going to have a constant flow ..."
1999, December 12, NAEDINE JOY HAZELL, TRAVEL INSIDER; Airport Malls Redefine 'Shopping on the Fly', The future for Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Conn., also looks very retail. Plans call for $156 million to expand the main terminal,
2010, September 17, Sarah Palin's visit to Iowa keeps fans guessing, But even with her level of celebrity, it would be very hard to win a race without engaging voters in a very retail way.

Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.''We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.

2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. .a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 762:He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance.
1998, February 1, w, Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff), The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbs retailed about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlier retailed about the Jews they had murdered.