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wholesale Definition

whole·sale (-sāl′)

noun

the selling of goods in relatively large quantities and usually at lower prices than at retail, esp. such selling to retailers for resale to consumers

Etymology: ME holesale (< phr. by hole sale, by wholesale): see whole & sale

adjective

  1. of, connected with, or engaged in such selling wholesale prices
  2. extensive, sweeping, or indiscriminate wholesale criticism

adverb

  1. in wholesale amounts or at wholesale prices
  2. extensively, sweepingly, or indiscriminately to reject proposals wholesale

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·saled′, -·sal′·ing

to sell wholesale

wholesale Related Forms
whole′·sal′er noun
wholesale Idioms

at wholesale

in wholesale quantities or at wholesale prices

by wholesale

  1. at wholesale
  2. extensively, sweepingly, or indiscriminately
wholesale Synonyms

wholesale

modif.

  1. Dealing in large lots

    large-scale, discount, in the mass, quantitative, in bulk, bulk, to the retailer, by the carload, loose, in quantity, in job lots; see also commercial 1.

    Antonyms retail*, to the consumer, in small lots.

  2. Indiscriminate

    sweeping, widespread, comprehensive, extensive, complete, over-all, general, total.

wholesale Usage Examples

Object

  • business: Profile: Established in 1986, we are a wholesaling hosiery business based in Leicester.

Adjective modifier

  • ip-based: Comcast, Time Warner ) and IP-based wholesales ( E.G.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • adopt: We who live in the West should not, of course, adopt Asian theology wholesale; that would be the begging approach.
  • sell: She claims that marriage and prostitution are different facets of the same business - the married woman sells sex wholesale, the prostitute retail.

Modifies a noun

  • onwholesaler: More wholesale information onWholesaler Wholesaler Profile | Website | Contact Supplier Meat Wholesaler [ Welwyn Garden City ] Products: .. .
  • onmanufacturer: More wholesale information onManufacturer Manufacturer Profile | Website | Contact Supplier Notepad Distributor [ London ] Products: .. .
  • ondistributor: More wholesale information onDistributor Distributor Profile | Website | Contact Supplier Wine Trading Company [ Sale ] Products: .. .
  • onimporter: More wholesale information onImporter Importer Profile | Website | Contact Supplier Fashion Wholesaler [ Bakewell ] Products: .. .
  • distributor: Drop Ship Guide Sell without inventory, become a wholesale distributor with no investment.
  • slaughter: Then our news sources were delighted to pound us with horror stories of wholesale slaughter - which turned out to be entirely untrue.

Modifying Another Word

  • almost: Rose's text repeats almost wholesale the original text, omitting only the morals which Perrault had appended.
  • off: On the strength of an unsupported allegation by McKeown, my Northern Ireland material was carted off wholesale by the police.
  • also: Sandling import loads of quality gear and supply both through their own retail venture and also wholesale to other suppliers.
  • not: How is it different, apart from being on specific and not wholesale areas?

Used with adjective complement

  • lift: One chapter here is even lifted wholesale from what is commonly held to be his finest book, Mountaineering in Scotland.
  • adopt: These are not generic risk assessments that you can just put your company name on and adopt wholesale without thought.
  • sell: On graduating later that year, he established his own business and began to sell wholesale to shops.
  • buy: I absorbed where to buy wholesale with websites & how to manage inventory, track auction activity & even compares programs for you.
  • supply: You will find a friendly family run business with over 25 years of experience of supplying wholesale to the trade.
  • provide: Kodak provides wholesale D&P services to retailers who either require wholesale back-up for their own on-site facilities or a full D&P service.
wholesale Quotes

And there was that wholesale libel on aYale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild