WHOLESALED

Verb

wholesaled

simple past tense and past participle of wholesale

Source: Wiktionary


WHOLESALE

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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