Wholesale

Quick meaning: Wholesale is a noun meaning (business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
2. (figurative) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
3. In bulk or large quantity.
4. (figurative) Indiscriminately.
5. To sell at wholesale.

Example Sentences

The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• wholesales
• wholesaling
• wholesaled

Synonyms for wholesale

Depending on context, synonyms include sweeping, indiscriminate.

Antonyms for wholesale

Common opposites include retail.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sweeping, bulk, indiscriminate, wholesaler, retail, producer.

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