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Retail vs Installment - What's the difference?

retail | installment |

As nouns the difference between retail and installment

is that 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 while installment is the act of installing; installation or installment can be a portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, eg mensual) being often definitely stipulated.

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.

retail

English

(wikipedia retail)

Noun

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  • 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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    installment

    English

    Alternative forms

    * instalment (Commonwealth)

    Etymology 1

    From install, itself from (etyl) installer, from installare, from (etyl) in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of installing; installation.
  • Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment , to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
  • (obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
  • The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment , coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.
    Synonyms
    * investiture, investment * installation

    Etymology 2

    A 1732 alteration of (estallment), from (etyl) : The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
  • a part of a broadcast or published serial.
  • anything that is performed in parts, spread in time
  • Usage notes
    For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment . Commonwealth usage varies.
    Synonyms
    * (portion of a debt) * (part of a broadcast or published serial) episode, part

    References

    * * * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=installment+&searchmode=none]