▪ I. reˈtailing, vbl. n.
[f. retail v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
| 1365 Waterford Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 292 The retailyng or salis of the commene wyne callid prisage. 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier E iv b, You will..sell them to poore shomakers at an vnreasonable rate, by your false retaylinge. 1609 Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. vi, When your Groundling..buyes his sport by the penny, and..is glad to vtter it againe by retailing. 1724 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 54 That..Hopkins be stopp'd from going on in retailing. 1736 Gentl. Mag. VI. 632/1 The Retailing of Punch will be confined to Houses where other strong Liquors are by Licence to be sold. 1951 in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 36 The specifications required to reach the goals now in sight for businesses of every description—manufacturing, distributing, retailing, servicing! |
▪ II. reˈtailing, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That retails.
| 1588 J. Mellis Briefe Instr. F v, All such goods which daily you put to the retailing shoppe. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. Wks. (Grosart) IV. 225 Any of these shee retayling bodie-traffiquers. 1603 Stow Surv. (1842) 204/1 Which I may call the keeping of a retailing or standing shop. |