retailer
English
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹiteɪlɚ/
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Noun
retailer (plural retailers)
- A retail sales company or salesman.
- 1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:
- 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.
- 2009 August 24, Janet Maslin, “Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man and Freud, Too”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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 October 20, Motoko Rich, “In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 23 October 2011:
- Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.
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retail sales company or salesman
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Spanish
Noun
retailer m (plural retailers or retailer)