wholesale
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Noun[edit]
wholesale (countable and uncountable, plural wholesales)
- (business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
- Synonym: bulk supply
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Translations[edit]
sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants
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Adjective[edit]
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.
- 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
- With financial losses emerging in 1957, the BTC abandoned the diesel pilot scheme in favour of wholesale orders for untried designs.
Translations[edit]
of or relating to sale in bulk or large quantity
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Adverb[edit]
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
- In bulk or large quantity.
- (figurative) Indiscriminately.
Translations[edit]
in bulk or large quantity
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Verb[edit]
wholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)
- To sell at wholesale.
Translations[edit]
sell in bulk
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