Skip to content
Vinony

retailer

noun

  1. person who works in the retail industry
L72375 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹiteɪlɚ/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English retail Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English retailer From retail + -er.

  1. A retail sales company or salesman.

    “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.”

    “Among 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.”