Retailer

//ˈɹiteɪlɚ// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A retail sales company or salesman.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a merchant who sells goods at retail wordnet

Synonyms

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catererchandlercommissariatcommissarydealerdistributor

Example

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"Marks & Spencers is a well-known British retailer."

Etymology

From retail + -er.

Related phrases

e-retailere-tailer

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