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retail1

noun
 
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
[uncountable]
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  1. the selling of goods to the public, usually through shops零售
    • The recommended retail price is £9.99.建议零售价为 9.99 英镑。🔊🔊
    • department stores and other retail outlets百货商店和其他零售店
    • the retail trade零售业
    compare wholesale
    Extra Examples
    • producing goods for retail生产零售商品
    • profits in the company's high street retail outlets公司高街零售店的利润
    Topics Businessb2, Shoppingb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryRetail is used before these nouns:
    • analyst
    • banking
    • business
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French use of Old French retaille ‘a piece cut off’, from retaillier, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tailler ‘to cut’.

retail1

adverb
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
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  1. by or to the public, usually through shops零售
    • to buy/sell retail 零买；零卖
    compare wholesale (1)Topics Shoppingc1

retail1

verb
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they retail
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
🔊/ˈriːteɪl/
he / she / it retails
🔊/ˈriːteɪlz/
🔊/ˈriːteɪlz/
past simple retailed
🔊/ˈriːteɪld/
🔊/ˈriːteɪld/
past participle retailed
🔊/ˈriːteɪld/
🔊/ˈriːteɪld/
-ing form retailing
🔊/ˈriːteɪlɪŋ/
🔊/ˈriːteɪlɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive] retail something to sell goods to the public, usually through shops零售
    • The firm manufactures and retails its own range of sportswear.公司生产并零售自己的运动服装系列。🔊🔊
    Topics Shoppingc1
  2. [intransitive] retail at/for something (business商业) to be sold at a particular price以…价格销售
    • The book retails at £14.95.这本书的零售价为 14.95 英镑。🔊🔊
    Topics Shoppingc1
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French use of Old French retaille ‘a piece cut off’, from retaillier, from re- (expressing intensive force) + tailler ‘to cut’.

retail2

verb
🔊/rɪˈteɪl/
🔊/rɪˈteɪl/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they retail
🔊/rɪˈteɪl/
🔊/rɪˈteɪl/
he / she / it retails
🔊/rɪˈteɪlz/
🔊/rɪˈteɪlz/
past simple retailed
🔊/rɪˈteɪld/
🔊/rɪˈteɪld/
past participle retailed
🔊/rɪˈteɪld/
🔊/rɪˈteɪld/
-ing form retailing
🔊/rɪˈteɪlɪŋ/
🔊/rɪˈteɪlɪŋ/
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  1. retail something (to somebody) to tell people about something, especially about a person’s behaviour or private life详说，述说（尤指别人的事情） synonym recount1
    • She retailed the neighbours' activities with relish.她饶有兴趣地对邻居们的活动说三道四。🔊🔊