Retail
Meaning of Retail
The sale of goods to the public in small quantities.
ما معنى كلمة Retail بالعربي؟
البيع بالتجزئة للمُستهلكين النهائيين
🛒🏪 البيع بالتجزئة للمُستهلكين النهائيين؛ تجارة التجزئة في المحلات والمتاجر؛ نشاط تجاري يقوم على بيع السلع والخدمات بكميات صغيرة للأفراد والعائلات للاستهلاك الشخصي وليس لإعادة البيع 🛒🏪
قصة GL: انتشار تقنيات التعلم الجيني للأفراد حول العالم - تجارة التجزئة المعرفية، النشاط التجاري الهادف لإيصال فوائد التطوير المعرفي لكل شخص يرغب في تحسين قدراته الذهنية 🌍
Synonyms & related words
Retail in a sentence
Retail data were used to model consumer attention.
Retail growth lifted the sector.
Retail licences are required to trade.
Students study retail in business class.
Origin of Retail
From Old French retaille 'piece cut off', from retaillier.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, retail is the opposite of wholesale. GL sells courses at retail to individuals.
Retail audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "Retail" — noun, pronounced /ˈriːteɪl/, with the stress on "re".
Narrator: Retail is the business of selling goods to the public, usually in small amounts.
Narrator: In plain English, it is shops selling to customers.
Narrator: It comes from old French retaille, a piece cut off, from retaillier, to cut up.
Narrator: A common collocation is "retail price", which describes what customers pay in shops.
Narrator: It differs from "wholesale", because wholesale sells in bulk to businesses, while retail sells to the public.
Narrator: In a second sense, "retail therapy" is shopping to cheer yourself up.
Narrator: Business, economics, marketing and logistics all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: retail sells straight to you.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: What does your sister do?
Speaker B: She works in RETAIL! It comes from old French for cutting up.
Speaker A: In a shop?
Speaker B: She manages a clothes store.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Retail sales rose in December", economics. "The recommended retail price is twenty pounds", shopping. "A bit of retail therapy", fun.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Retail is also a verb, "it retails at ten pounds", meaning it is sold for that price.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Commerce is its cousin, sales its twin, and shopkeeping an alternative — yet retail keeps its bustling charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "retail" in AI prompts — useful for e-commerce and sales forecasting.
Speaker A: How for e-commerce?
Speaker B: Write listings.
Prompt: Write product listings for a retail website selling handmade candles.
Speaker A: And forecasting?
Speaker B: Plan stock.
Prompt: Forecast next month’s retail demand for umbrellas from this weather and sales data.
Speaker A: Could it help staff?
Speaker B: Yes, for training.
Prompt: Write a short retail customer service training guide for new starters.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Pricing.
Prompt: Calculate the retail price that gives a forty percent margin on these costs.
Frequently asked questions about Retail
What does Retail mean?
The sale of goods to the public in small quantities.
ما معنى كلمة Retail بالعربي؟
البيع بالتجزئة للمُستهلكين النهائيين — 🛒🏪 البيع بالتجزئة للمُستهلكين النهائيين؛ تجارة التجزئة في المحلات والمتاجر؛ نشاط تجاري يقوم على بيع السلع والخدمات بكميات صغيرة للأفراد والعائلات للاستهلاك الشخصي وليس لإعادة البيع 🛒🏪
How do you pronounce Retail?
Retail is pronounced /ˈriːteɪl/ and is used as a noun / verb / adjective.
How is Retail used in a sentence?
Retail data were used to model consumer attention.
What are synonyms of Retail?
shop trade, consumer sales, direct sale, selling, merchandising, sell.