retailing

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retailing

  • /ˈɹiːteɪliŋ/

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of retail

noun retailings

  1. countable, uncountable The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail. 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

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Closest in meaning: sales, selling, sell, sale, distribution, compartmentalization, detailed, fragmentation, detail, details, retailers, merchandising, marketing, vending, trading, shopkeeping

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@misc{retailing_2026,
  title = {retailing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/retailing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}