Retailing
noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail. countable, uncountable
"It is not without interest to observe in those remote times, and under a social system so widely different from the modern, the same small causes that ruffle and interrupt the "course of love," which operate so commonly at this day; -- the same inventive jealousy, the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty gossip, which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, and counteract the tenor of circumstances most apparently propitious."
- 2 the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of retail form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Climate change effects on agriculture will have consequences for food security, both in the U.S. and globally, through changes in crop yields and food prices and effects on food processing, storage, transportation, and retailing."
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