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gross | retail |

As a proper noun gross

is .

As a noun retail is

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, which are involved in the business of selling and point-of-sale marketing retail goods to the public.

As an adjective retail is

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

As an adverb retail is

direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.

As a verb retail is

to sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.

gross

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (US, slang) Disgusting.
  • Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
  • * 1874 : Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
    • But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross . Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Great, large, bulky, or fat.
  • * 2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books , 35.IV:
    • He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross .
  • Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
  • The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
  • * Milton
    • Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.

    Synonyms

    * (disgusting) (l), (l), (l) * (fat) See also

    Antonyms

    * fine * (total before any deductions) net

    Related terms

    * gro * grody * gross out

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Twelve dozen = 144.
  • The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
  • The bulk, the mass, the masses.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To earn money, not including expenses.
    • The movie gross ed three million on the first weekend.
  • * '>citation

    • Related terms

    * engross * grocer, grocery, groceries

    Derived terms

    * gross receipts * gross weight * gross income ----

    retail

    English

    (wikipedia retail)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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, which are involved in the business of selling and point-of-sale marketing retail goods to the public.
    • She works in retail .
  • (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.

    Derived terms

    * retailer

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
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    • Adverb

    (head)
  • Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.
    • ''We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
  • * 2005 , .
    • a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing .
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=1998 , author= , title=Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff) , work= , date=February 1 citation , passage=The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbs retailed' about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlier ' retailed about the Jews they had murdered.}}

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