Retailing

Quick meaning: Retailing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of retail.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of retail.

More Meanings

1. The business of selling directly to the consumer; retail.

Example Sentences

A cold chain refers to the procurement, warehousing, transportation, and retailing of products under controlled temperature conditions.

Where abundance is a point, rather than fine fruit for retailings, as in some districts in the South, seedling peaches are preferred to the grafted kinds.

This is a result of a switch from High Street to online retailing, requiring consumer goods to be delivered to the door from large-scale distribution parks that have sufficient traffic to justify a rail terminal.

It is not without interest to observe in those remote times, and under a social system so widely different from the modern, the same small causes that ruffle and interrupt the "course of love," which operate so commonly at this day; -- the same inventive jealousy, the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty gossip, which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, and counteract the tenor of circumstances most apparently propitious.

Word Forms

• retailings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sales, selling, sell, sale, distribution, compartmentalization.

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