retail

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The sale of goods or commodities in small quantities directly to consumers.
• adjective Of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of goods or commodities at retail.
• adverb In retail quantities.
• adverb At a retail price.
• intransitive verb To sell in small quantities directly to consumers.
• intransitive verb To tell or repeat (gossip or stories, for example) to others.
• intransitive verb To sell at retail.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Retaliation.
• noun The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels, or at second hand; a dealing out in small portions: opposed to wholesale.
• noun in small quantities; a little at a time, as in the sale of merchandise.
• Of or pertaining to sale at retail; concerned with sale at retail: as, retail trade; a retail dealer.
• To sell in small quantities or parcels.
• To sell at second hand.
• To deal out in small quantities; tell in broken parts; tell to many; tell again; hand down by report: as, to retail slander or idle reports.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• adjective Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.
• transitive verb To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer.
• transitive verb Obs. or R. To sell at second hand.
• transitive verb To distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The sale of goods directly to the consumer; encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them, which are involved in the business of selling and point-of-sale marketing retail goods to the public.
• noun colloquial Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
• adjective Of, or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
• adverb Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.
• verb To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
• verb To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale
• adverb at a retail price
• verb sell on the retail market
• verb be sold at the retail level