What is the meaning of wholesale?

noun

  • The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers.

verb

  • Sell in large quantities.

adjective

  • Ignoring distinctions.
    • usage: "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"

adverb

  • At a wholesale price.
    • usage: "I can sell it to you wholesale"
  • On a large scale without careful discrimination.
    • usage: "I buy food wholesale"
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