Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to retail
Participle: retailed
Gerund: retailing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | retail |
| you | retail |
| he;she;it | retails |
| we | retail |
| you | retail |
| they | retail |
Perfect
| I | have retailed |
| you | have retailed |
| he;she;it | has retailed |
| we | have retailed |
| you | have retailed |
| they | have retailed |
Past
| I | retailed |
| you | retailed |
| he;she;it | retailed |
| we | retailed |
| you | retailed |
| they | retailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had retailed |
| you | had retailed |
| he;she;it | had retailed |
| we | had retailed |
| you | had retailed |
| they | had retailed |
Future
| I | will retail |
| you | will retail |
| he;she;it | will retail |
| we | will retail |
| you | will retail |
| they | will retail |
Future Perfect
| I | will have retailed |
| you | will have retailed |
| he;she;it | will have retailed |
| we | will have retailed |
| you | will have retailed |
| they | will have retailed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | retail |
| you | retail |
| he;she;it | retail |
| we | retail |
| you | retail |
| they | retail |
Perfect
| I | have retailed |
| you | have retailed |
| he;she;it | have retailed |
| we | have retailed |
| you | have retailed |
| they | have retailed |
Imperfect
| I | retailed |
| you | retailed |
| he;she;it | retailed |
| we | retailed |
| you | retailed |
| they | retailed |
Pluperfect
| I | had retailed |
| you | had retailed |
| he;she;it | had retailed |
| we | had retailed |
| you | had retailed |
| they | had retailed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would retail |
| you | would retail |
| he;she;it | would retail |
| we | would retail |
| you | would retail |
| they | would retail |
Perfect
| I | would have retailed |
| you | would have retailed |
| he;she;it | would have retailed |
| we | would have retailed |
| you | would have retailed |
| they | would have retailed |
Imperative
| you | retail |
| we | Let's retail |
| you | retail |
Verbs conjugated like 'retail'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'retail'
betail,
detail,
rebail,
rejail,
remail,
renail,
rerail,
resail,
retain,
betall,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1365 (implied in retailing), from O.Fr. retaillier "to cut off, pare, clip, divide," from re- "back" + taillier "to cut, trim" (see tailor). Sense of "recount, tell over again" is first recorded 1594. The noun meaning "sale in small quantities" is from 1433, from M.Fr. retail "piece cut off, shred, scrap, paring."
2. From the Old French verb retaillier.
Sample Sentences
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a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing. [2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 223d:]
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He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo. [1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 157:]
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He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance. [1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 762:]
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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. [1998 February 1, Alan Ryan, “Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff)”, in The New York Times:]