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wholesale |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wholesale \Whole"sale`\, n. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. {By wholesale}, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. --I. Watts. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wholesale \Whole"sale`\, a. 1. Pertaining to or engaged in trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as wholesale slaughter. ``A time for wholesale trust.'' --Mrs. Humphry Ward. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wholesale adj 1: selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer; "wholesale prices"; "a wholesale produce market" [ant: {retail}] 2: ignoring distinctions; "indiscriminate slaughter of a population"; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [syn: {sweeping}] n : the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers [ant: {retail}] adv 1: at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale" [ant: {retail}] 2: on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale" [syn: {in large quantities}] v : sell in large quantities [ant: {retail}]
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