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Retails vs Retains - What's the difference?

retails | retains |

As verbs the difference between retails and retains

is that retails is (retail) while retains is (retain).

retails

English

Verb

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  • (retail)

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    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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    retains

    English

    Verb

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  • (retain)

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    retain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep in possession or use.
  • * Milton
    • Be obedient, and retain / Unalterably firm his love entire.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}
  • To keep in one's pay or service.
  • * Addison
    • A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defence.
  • To employ by paying a retainer.
  • To hold secure.
  • (obsolete) To restrain; to prevent.
  • (obsolete) To belong; to pertain.
  • * Boyle
    • A somewhat languid relish, retaining to bitterness.

    Synonyms

    * keep

    Related terms

    * retainer, retention

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