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# retail

noun, uncountable (retail); verb (retail, retails, retailed, retailing); adjective/adverb (retail price, sell retail)

«retail» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Selling goods to the public in shops or online, usually in small amounts, for them to use. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#m1)
2. (verb) To be sold at a certain price: These shoes retail at $40. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#m2)
3. (informal) «Retail therapy» means shopping to cheer yourself up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths shopping problems: the shop buys goods at a wholesale price and sells at the retail price; profit = retail price − wholesale price. In everyday life many adults work in retail (shops). Phrases: «retail price», «retail store», «work in retail», «retail therapy», «retails at».

### Examples

- Mum works in retail at a clothes shop. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x1)
- The retail price of the toy is £15. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x2)
- The shop buys pens for 20p and sells them retail for 50p: profit 30p each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x3)
- This game retails at $30. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x4)
- Big retail stores are busy at holiday time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x5)
- "I need some retail therapy," joked my aunt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x6)

### Note

Opposite: wholesale (selling in large amounts to shops). Person/business: retailer. Pronounced REE-tail. Do not confuse with «re-tell» (tell again).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «retail» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«retail» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/retail.html) on Mova free.