About The Word Wholesale
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Wholesale
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What's The Definition Of Wholesale?
[n] the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
[adv] on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale" [adv] at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale" [adj] ignoring distinctions; "indiscriminate slaughter of a population"; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [adj] selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer; "wholesale prices"; "a wholesale produce market" [v] sell in large quantities Synonyms | Synonyms for Wholesale: bulk(a) | in large quantities | indiscriminate | sweeping Related Terms | Find terms related to Wholesale: See Also | marketing | merchandising | sell | selling Wholesale In Webster's Dictionary \Whole"sale`\, n.
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. |
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