retail business

collocation in English

meaningsofretailandbusiness

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retail
noun[U]
uk
/ˈriː.teɪl/us
/ˈriː.teɪl/
the activity of selling goods to the public, usually ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofretailandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One such organization is a quick print shop: aretailbusinessthat provides xerographic copying and printing (as opposed to offset printing).
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As far as theretailbusinessis concerned, the present industrial conditions are so depressed that things will be more difficult for the retail dealer.
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I came across one a few weeks ago in theretailbusiness.
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They have a huge factory, which may supply some shops, but there is an enormousretailbusinessin the streets.
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Obviously, if they have thisretailbusinessthey will be competing quite unfairly with the small man.
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Smallretailbusinessis part of the fabric of what was once described as a nation of shopkeepers.
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My own figures show that the number of chemists inretailbusinesshas not altered significantly over the last 14 or 15 years.
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That is all right if he engages in wholesale business, but he is not allowed to do it if he is inretailbusiness.
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It is clear that most of those in theretailbusinessconsider the volume of trade to be constant.
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I used to be in theretailbusiness.
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Increasingly, we can expect sub-offices to maintain the same hours as the associatedretailbusiness that is alongside, thus greatly improving the service to customers.
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Does he agree that one thing that would be useful in the context of crime againstretailbusinessis some figures?
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A licence is not required to open a bicycle or other repair business which is not associated with aretailbusiness.
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Most of them run their post office business under the same roof as anotherretailbusiness.
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For instance, every littleretailbusiness, every co-operative society, at some time or other has an appreciation on the goods in its shop.
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There is no doubt of that in the mind of anyone who understands theretailbusiness.
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In many communities, it is the onlyretailbusinessand a focal point of village life.
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My constituent keeps going only because hisretailbusinessserves a particular part of the island.
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The value of the alliedretailbusinessis partly dependent on the existence of the post office business.
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One of the ways of measuring that is to be found in the value ofretailbusinesswhich is done here.
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