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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
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