🇬🇧 Retail meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

“Retail” means something is sold in smaller amounts straight to regular people, usually in shops or on websites, not in giant bulk to other businesses. When something is sold retail, it’s the price and way you see it in a normal store, one item at a time, to everyday customers like you and your family.

The cookie factory used to sell only to supermarkets, but now it also sells retail, so I can personally ruin my dinner.

Grandpa said he’d sell his terrible jokes retail, but no one wanted even one, not even at a discount.

The fairy sold glitter retail, and the town is still finding sparkles everywhere five years later.

The ghost sold invisibility classes retail, but nobody could see where to sign up.

In many places, things like food, toys, and clothes are usually sold retail, which is why you don’t have to buy 1,000 bananas at once—unless you’re shopping for a very hungry monkey.

At the market a woman spreads jars on a small retail table and sells jam retail. A boy points; the woman retails a small jar to him at the retail price on a tag. He pays, tastes, grins. A passerby buys retail too; soon the table is nearly empty. The woman breathes, happy.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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