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retailer

/ˈɹiteɪlɚ/

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What does retailer mean?

noun

  1. A retail sales company or salesman.

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/ˈɹiteɪlɚ/

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The apparent profits of the wealthy retailer, therefore, are there more nearly upon a level with those of the wholesale merchant.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
Their wholesale price was six shillings, but the retailer would get twelve or more.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
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Everybody knows it; and nobody thinks of seriously shaking off her tyranny: not the retailer, nor the wholesale dealer, nor the killer of the game.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
Is not ‘retailer’ the term which is applied to those who sit in the market-place engaged in buying and selling, while those who wander from one city to another are called merchants?
PlatoThe RepublicTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1497
Abolish the tax of seven or eight cents a quart collected from the retailer, and the consumption of wine will soon rise from eighty-three quarts to one hundred and seventy-five; and the wine industry, which does not know what to do with its products, will have a market.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444