English Dictionary
◊ WHOLESALE
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}]