retailer
nounUS /ˈɹiteɪlɚ/
Etymology From retail + -er.
1
A retail sales company or salesman.
- 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.1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:
- 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 August 24, Janet Maslin, “Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man and Freud, Too”, in The New York Times:
1 more example
- Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices.2009 October 20, Motoko Rich, “In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 23 Oct 2011:
- Derived terms
- e-retailer, e-tailer, megaretailer, nonretailer
- Related terms
- retail, wholesaler