Dictionary

retailer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈɹiteɪlɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree 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.

Meanings

1. A retail sales company or salesman.
   • Among Baum’s many incarnations were these: military school student, actor, poultry expert, newspaperman, retailer, window dresser, women’s rights advocate, racist denigrator of American Indians and early Hollywood filmmaker. 2009 August 24, Janet Maslin, “Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man and Freud, Too”, in The New York Times:
   • 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. 1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:
   • Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices. 2009 October 20, Motoko Rich, “In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 23 Oct 2011:

Forms

Deriveds

e-tailer · megaretailer · nonretailer · e-retailer

Relateds

wholesaler · retail

Translations (40)

es minorista (retail sales company or salesman) · ru рите́йлер (retail sales company or salesman) · fr revendeur (retail sales company or salesman) · tl magtitingi (retail sales company or salesman) · da detailhandler (retail sales company or salesman) · de Händler (retail sales company or salesman) · sv detaljhandlare (retail sales company or salesman) · nb detaljist (retail sales company or salesman) · fr commerçant (retail sales company or salesman) · ro vînzător detaliist (retail sales company or salesman) · pt varejista (retail sales company or salesman) · ga miondíoltóir (retail sales company or salesman) · mi kaihoko whakamutunga (retail sales company or salesman) · pl detalistka (retail sales company or salesman) · nl middenstander (retail sales company or salesman) · sv detaljist (retail sales company or salesman) · cs maloobchodník (retail sales company or salesman) · pl detalista (retail sales company or salesman) · io endetalisto (retail sales company or salesman) · it rivenditore (retail sales company or salesman) · cmn 零售商 (retail sales company or salesman) · hi खुदरा (retail sales company or salesman) · la propōla (retail sales company or salesman) · fi jälleenmyyjä (retail sales company or salesman) · de Einzelhändler (retail sales company or salesman) · es detal (retail sales company or salesman) · nn detaljist (retail sales company or salesman) · es tienda minorista (retail sales company or salesman) · ja 小売商人 (retail sales company or salesman) · sv minuthandlare (retail sales company or salesman) · de Verkäufer (retail sales company or salesman) · da detaillist (retail sales company or salesman) · io endetalvendisto (retail sales company or salesman) · ru ро́зничный торго́вец (retail sales company or salesman) · ro vânzător cu bucata (retail sales company or salesman) · fr distributeur (retail sales company or salesman) · ro vânzător cu amănuntul (retail sales company or salesman) · bg търговец на дребно (retail sales company or salesman) · de Ladenbesitzer (retail sales company or salesman) · es comerciante minorista (retail sales company or salesman)