Wholesale Definition

hōlsāl
wholesaled, wholesales, wholesaling
noun
wholesales
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.
Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary
Antonyms:
adjective
Of, connected with, or engaged in such selling.
Wholesale prices.
Webster's New World
Of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of goods in large quantities for resale.
A wholesale produce market; wholesale goods; wholesale prices.
American Heritage
Made or accomplished extensively and indiscriminately; blanket.
Wholesale destruction.
American Heritage
Extensive, sweeping, or indiscriminate.
Wholesale criticism.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
adverb
In wholesale amounts or at wholesale prices.
Webster's New World
In large bulk or quantity.
American Heritage
Extensively, sweepingly, or indiscriminately.
To reject proposals wholesale.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • in large quantities
Antonyms:
verb
wholesaled, wholesales, wholesaling
To sell in large quantities for resale.
American Heritage
To engage in wholesale selling.
American Heritage
To sell wholesale.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
idiom
at wholesale
  • in wholesale quantities or at wholesale prices
Webster's New World
by wholesale
  • at wholesale
  • extensively, sweepingly, or indiscriminately
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Wholesale

Noun

Singular:
wholesale
Plural:
wholesales

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Wholesale

  • at wholesale
  • by wholesale

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