Meanings
plural retailers
- A retail sales company or salesman.
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 20112 more examples
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 194Among 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna merchant who sells goods at retail
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian търговец на дребно
- търговец на дребно (tărgovec na drebno)retail sales company or salesman
Chinese Mandarin 零售商
- 零售商 (língshòushāng)retail sales company or salesman
Czech maloobchodník
- maloobchodníkretail sales company or salesman
Danish detailhandler, detaillist
- detailhandlerretail sales company or salesman
- detaillistretail sales company or salesman
Dutch middenstander
- middenstanderretail sales company or salesman
Finnish jälleenmyyjä
- jälleenmyyjäretail sales company or salesman
French revendeur, distributeur
- revendeurretail sales company or salesman
- distributeurretail sales company or salesman
- commerçantretail sales company or salesman
German Einzelhändler, Händler
- Einzelhändlerretail sales company or salesman
- Händlerretail sales company or salesman
- Verkäuferretail sales company or salesman
- Ladenbesitzerretail sales company or salesman
Hindi खुदरा
- खुदरा (khudrā)retail sales company or salesman
Irish miondíoltóir
- miondíoltóirretail sales company or salesman
Italian rivenditore
- rivenditoreretail sales company or salesman
Japanese 小売商人
- 小売商人 (kōrishōnin)retail sales company or salesman
Latin propōla
- propōlaretail sales company or salesman
Māori kaihoko whakamutunga
- kaihoko whakamutungaretail sales company or salesman
Norwegian Bokmål detaljist
- detaljistretail sales company or salesman
Polish detalista, detalistka
- detalistaretail sales company or salesman
- detalistkaretail sales company or salesman
Portuguese varejista
- varejistaretail sales company or salesman
Romanian vânzător cu amănuntul, vânzător cu bucata
- vânzător cu amănuntulretail sales company or salesman
- vânzător cu bucataretail sales company or salesman
- vînzător detaliistretail sales company or salesman
Russian ро́зничный торго́вец, рите́йлер
- ро́зничный торго́вец (rózničnyj torgóvec)retail sales company or salesman
- рите́йлер (ritɛ́jler)retail sales company or salesman
Spanish minorista, detal
- minoristaretail sales company or salesman
- detalretail sales company or salesman
- comerciante minoristaretail sales company or salesman
- tienda minoristaretail sales company or salesman
Swedish detaljist, detaljhandlare
- detaljistretail sales company or salesman
- detaljhandlareretail sales company or salesman
- minuthandlareretail sales company or salesman
Tagalog magtitingi
- magtitingiretail sales company or salesman
Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
retailer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retailer
“retailer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retailer. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “retailer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retailer.
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