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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: retaillier 'to divide into pieces', from taillier 'to cut'

retail

2 verb
     
re‧tail2
1 [intransitive] technicalBBT to be sold for a particular price in a shop
retail at/for
The wine retails at £6.95 a bottle.
The decoder is expected to retail for under $300.
2 [transitive] technical to sell goods in shops:
Their products are retailed all over Britain.
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