retailing

noun

re·​tail·​ing ˈrē-ˌtā-liŋ 

: the activities involved in the selling of goods to ultimate consumers for personal or household consumption

Examples of retailing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Abel and Jain will do the morning session as would be expected, but the afternoon session will include Abel, BNSF's Katie Farmer, and Adam Johnson, who runs NetJets and is president of consumer products, service, and retailing, a new position created late last year. —Alex Crippen, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026

Hudson’s Bay and Fortunoff’s in 2008, and Lord & Taylor in 2006, which marked Baker’s entry into retailing. —David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026

Rafiqul Islam Rana, an assistant professor of retailing at the University of South Carolina, wrote in an email. —Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 29 Jan. 2026

And while the manufacturing, retailing, and banking executives who led the top American firms in the post–Cold War era saw themselves as scientific managers, the Tech Hamiltonians—often the extremely successful founders of cutting-edge technology firms—see themselves as visionaries and leaders. —Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for retailing

• assailing
• availing
• bewailing
• blackmailing
• curtailing
• derailing
• descaling
• detailing
• dovetailing
• entailing
• exhaling
• impaling