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# retail

«retail» in Mova's school dictionary: **Selling goods to the public in shops or online, usually…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Selling goods to the public in shops or online, usually in small amounts, for them to use. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#m2)

3) (informal) «Retail therapy» means shopping to cheer yourself up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x1)
- The retail price of the toy is £15. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x3)
- This game retails at $30. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x4)
- Big retail stores are busy at holiday time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/#x5)
- "I need some retail therapy," joked my aunt. [tree →](https://md.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).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «retail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/retail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.