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Done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.

One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.

The act of retailing.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [Obs.] At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.

The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt. [prov. Eng.]

A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.

A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. [Obs. as an English word.]

ookkeeping), an account of money received, disbursed, and on hand. -- Cash boy, in large retail stores, a messenger who carries the money received by the salesman from customers to a cashier, and returns the proper change. [Colloq.] -- Cash credit, an account with a bank by which a person or house, having given securi…

A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares. Cotgrave.

To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More.…

, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.

A woman who retails fish.

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.

A retail grocer's shop or store. [U.s.];

A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker. Swift.

One who deals in ice; one who retails or delivers ice.

ell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.

ntile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. [U.S.]