RETAILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does retailing mean? 

• RETAILING (noun)
  The noun RETAILING has 1 sense:

1. the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers

  Familiarity information: RETAILING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETAILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("retailing" is a kind of...):

marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

Derivation:

retail (sell on the retail market)

retail (be sold at the retail level)

 Context examples 

Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects that occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)