| 单词 | retail |
| 释义 | retail (once / 320 pages) nadvv If you buy a pair of jeans at your neighborhood Chique Boutique, you’re buying retail, but if you go to China and buy a boatload of jeans directly from the manufacturer, you’re buying wholesale, which is the opposite of retail. If you make your living growing flowers, you may have a retail shop where you sell to people buying flowers for themselves, and you may also have a wholesale business, where you sell flowers to florists and supermarkets who sell your flowers to their customers. As you have probably figured out, the retail shops — the florists and supermarkets — add their own markup to the wholesale price you charge them, so they can make a profit, too. WORD FAMILYretail: retailed, retailer, retailing, retails+/retailer: retailers/retailing: retailings USAGE EXAMPLESA Pemex spokesman said relatively few gasoline stations were affected, although protesters temporarily blocked storage terminals, delaying the delivery of gasoline to retail points. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Instead, cash dried up, retail commerce froze, and Maduro suspended the move as rioting and looting erupted. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Low-paying industries, such as retail, are among the largest and fastest-growing. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale Ant|Hyper wholesale the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers marketing, merchandising, selling the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money 2adv at a retail price I'll sell it to you retail only Ant wholesale at a wholesale price 3v be sold at the retail level These gems retail at thousands of dollars each Hyper sell be sold at a certain price or in a certain way 4v sell on the retail market Ant|Hyper wholesale sell in large quantities sell exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
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