wholesale
English
Etymology
From whole + sale.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoʊlseɪl/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -oʊlseɪl
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
Derived terms
- wholesaler
Translations
sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants
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Further reading
- wholesale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Adjective
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
- Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
- (figurative) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
- The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
- 1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:
- But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
- 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
- By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
Translations
of or relating to sale in bulk or large quantity
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Adverb
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
- In bulk or large quantity.
- (figurative) Indiscriminately.
Translations
in bulk or large quantity
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Verb
wholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)
- To sell at wholesale.
Translations
sell in bulk
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