Wholesale

/ˈhoʊlseɪl/ · noun

Meaning

(business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants..

Definitions by Sense

1. (business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
2. Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
3. (figurative) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
4. In bulk or large quantity.
5. (figurative) Indiscriminately.
6. To sell at wholesale.

Example Sentences

The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.

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.

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.

With financial losses emerging in 1957, the BTC abandoned the diesel pilot scheme in favour of wholesale orders for untried designs.

It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land.

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• wholesales
• more wholesale
• most wholesale
• wholesaling
• wholesaled

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