retailed
- 1Simple past and past participle of retail.
The company retailed its software directly to customers last year.
Imported silks were retailed at a steep markup in the port cities.
Note
A regular -ed form doing double duty: it is the simple past (the shop retailed silks) and, after have or be, the participle of perfect and passive constructions (silks were retailed). It carries all the verb's meanings, not only selling. Gossip and news can be retailed too, passed along from one listener to the next, like goods handed out in small portions. An archaic meaning was selling secondhand.
She retailed the rumor to everyone at the party before midnight.
The story had been retailed so often that no one remembered who started it.
retailed is a form of retail
retail, verb: To sell in small quantities directly to customers, rather than in bulk to other businesses. Full entry
- Spelling
- retail → retailed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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