WHOLESALE

sweeping, wholesale

(adjective) ignoring distinctions; “sweeping generalizations”; “wholesale destruction”

wholesale, in large quantities

(adverb) on a large scale without careful discrimination; “I buy food wholesale”

wholesale

(adverb) at a wholesale price; “I can sell it to you wholesale”

wholesale

(noun) the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers

wholesale

(verb) sell in large quantities

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

wholesale (countable and uncountable, plural wholesales)

(business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

Synonym: bulk supply

Antonyms

• retail

Adjective

wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)

Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.

(figurative) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

Adverb

wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)

In bulk or large quantity.

(figurative) Indiscriminately.

Verb

wholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)

To sell at wholesale.

Source: Wiktionary

Whole"sale`, n.

Definition: Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.

Whole"sale`, a.

1. 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; the wholesale price.

2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for wholesale trust." Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition