different between retail vs merchandise

English

Etymology

From the Old French verb retaillier.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??i?te?l/, [????i?t?e???]
• Rhymes: -e?l

Noun

retail (uncountable)

1. (business) The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.

   She works in retail.

2. (colloquial) Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.

   I never pay retail for clothes.

Antonyms

• wholesale

Derived terms

• retailer
• retail park
• retail politics

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See also

• wholesale
• click and collect

Adjective

retail (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.

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Adverb

retail

1. Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.

   We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.

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Verb

retail (third-person singular simple present retails, present participle retailing, simple past and past participle retailed)

1. To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 223d.

     a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing.

2. (archaic) To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
3. To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 762:

     He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance.

Translations

Anagrams

• Altier, airtel, aliter, iteral, lirate, retial, tailer

Indonesian

Etymology

From English retail, from Old French retaillier. Doublet of ritel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [re?ta?l]
• Hyphenation: ré?ta?il

Noun

rétail (first-person possessive retailku, second-person possessive retailmu, third-person possessive retailnya)

1. retail, the sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.

Alternative forms

• ritel

Further reading

• “retail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Noun

retail m (uncountable)

1. retail

English

Alternative forms

• merchandize (non?standard)
• merchaundise, merchaundize (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English marchaundise, from Anglo-Norman marchaundise, from marchaunt (“merchant”).

See etymology for merchant

Pronunciation

• (General American) (noun) IPA^(key): /?m?t??n?da?s/, /?m?t??n?da?z/
• (General American) (verb) IPA^(key): /?m?t??n?da?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) (noun) IPA^(key): /?m??t??n?da?s/, /?m??t??n?da?z/
• (Received Pronunciation) (verb) IPA^(key): /?m??t??n?da?z/

Noun

merchandise (usually uncountable, plural merchandises)

1. (uncountable) Goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
   • 1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional papers. Inventory control record 1, page 29:

     The custom of giving away merchandise for advertising purposes is greatly on the increase in this country. More goods are now distributed in one year as advertising novelties and as premiums than in a decade 10 or 15 years ago.

   • 1936, Cecil Day Lewis, The Whispering Roots, Jonathan Cape, page 175:

     It has been stated that Fred Beers is giving free merchandise to this store and I believe you will find that one of your inspectors obtained a bottle of milk free when he purchased some groceries on Thursday Nov. 23rd [1933].

2. (uncountable) Commercial goods connected (branded) with an entity such as a team, band, company, charity, work of fiction, festival, or meme. (Commonly shortened to merch.)
3. (countable, archaic) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
4. (uncountable, archaic) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "merchandise": returned, used, damaged, stolen, assorted, lost, promotional, industrial, cheap, expensive, imported, good, inferior.

Synonyms

• merch
• wares
• product

Translations

Verb

merchandise (third-person singular simple present merchandises, present participle merchandising, simple past and past participle merchandised)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
   • a. 1626, Francis Bacon, Of Usury

     merchandising , which is the vena porta of wealth in a State : the second , that it makes poor merchants ; for as a farmer cannot husband his grown so well if he sit at a great rent

2. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of goods.

3. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
4. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.

5. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

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Related terms

References

• merchandise at OneLook Dictionary Search
• merchandise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “merchandise”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “merchandise”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: merchandisent, merchandises

Verb

merchandise

1. first-person singular present indicative of merchandiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of merchandiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of merchandiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of merchandiser
5. second-person singular imperative of merchandiser