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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale;


VERB (2)

1. be sold at the retail level;
- Example: "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each"

2. sell on the retail market;


ADVERB (1)

1. at a retail price;
- Example: "I'll sell it to you retail only"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Retail \Re"tail\ (r[=e]"t[=a]l), n. [F. retaille piece cut off, shred, paring, or OF. retail, from retailler. See Retail, v.] The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Retail \Re"tail\, a. Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Retail \Re*tail"\ (r[-e]*t[=a]l"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Retailed;p. pr. & vb. n. Retailing.] [Cf. F. retailler to cut again; pref. re- re + tailler to cut. See Retail, n., Tailor, and cf. Detail.] 1. To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries. [1913 Webster] 2. To sell at second hand. [Obs. or R.] --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander. "To whom I will retail my conquest won." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares At wakes and wassails. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

retail adv 1: at a retail price; "I'll sell it to you retail only" [ant: wholesale] n 1: the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale [ant: wholesale] v 1: be sold at the retail level; "These gems retail at thousands of dollars each" 2: sell on the retail market [ant: wholesale]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

110 Moby Thesaurus words for "retail": battologize, be in, bestrew, bill of sale, broadcast, business, carry, circumfuse, close out, commercial, convert into cash, cut under, deal in, deal out, demand, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, dump, effect a sale, fan out, fill, give an encore, go over, go through, handle, industrial, issue, iterate, job, make a sale, market, marketing, mass market, mercantile, merchandise, merchandising, merchant, move, outlet, overscatter, oversow, overspread, pad, practice, propagate, publish, radiate, reaffirm, reassert, recapitulate, recite, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, reprint, resell, restate, resume, retailing, retell, review, reword, run over, sacrifice, sale, sales, say over, say over again, scatter, sell, sell off, sell on consignment, sell out, sell over, sell retail, sell short, sell up, sell wholesale, selling, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, strew, sum up, summarize, tautologize, tie-in, trade, trade in, trading, traffic in, turn into money, turn over, turnover, undercut, undersell, unload, utter, wholesale, wholesaling
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

RETAIL. To sell by retail, is to sell by small parcels, and not in the gross. 5 N. S. 279.