wholesale Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
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verb sell in large quantities
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adjective satellite ignoring distinctions
sweeping.
- sweeping generalizations
- wholesale destruction
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adverb at a wholesale price
- I can sell it to you wholesale
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adverb on a large scale without careful discrimination
in large quantities.
- I buy food wholesale
WordNet
Whole"sale` noun
Definitions
Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.
Whole"sale` adjective
Definitions
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Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a .wholesale merchant; thewholesale price -
Extensive and indiscriminate; "A time for wholesale trust." Mrs. Humphry Ward.as, .wholesale slaughter