What does wholesale mean?
Definitions for wholesale
ˈhoʊlˌseɪlwhole·sale
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Princeton's WordNet
wholesaleadjective
the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
sweeping, wholesaleverb
ignoring distinctions
"sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"
wholesaleadverb
sell in large quantities
wholesaleadverb
at a wholesale price
"I can sell it to you wholesale"
wholesale, in large quantitiesadverb
on a large scale without careful discrimination
"I buy food wholesale"
Wiktionary
wholesalenoun
The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants
wholesaleverb
To sell at wholesale.
wholesaleadverb
in bulk or large quantity
wholesaleadverb
indiscriminately
wholesaleadjective
of, or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale
wholesaleadjective
extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing or blanket
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wholesalenoun
Sale in the lump, not in separate small parcels.
Etymology: whole and sale.
These are wholesale chapmen to Satan, that do not truck and barter one crime for another, but take the whole herd. Government of the Tongue.
This cost me at the wholesale merchant’s a hundred drachma’s; I make two hundred by selling it in retail. Addison.
Some from vanity, or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. Isaac Watts.
ChatGPT
wholesale
Wholesale refers to the sale of goods or merchandise in large quantities for resale by retailers. These transactions typically take place between businesses, such as manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, rather than directly to consumers. The main goal of wholesale is to sell a large amount of items at a lower price.
Webster Dictionary
Wholesalenoun
sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail
Wholesaleadjective
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
Wholesaleadjective
extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter
Wikidata
Wholesale
Wholesaling, jobbing, or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. In general, it is the sale of goods to anyone other than a standard consumer. In the United Kingdom, the Cash and Carry is a term used describe a wholesale warehouse, particularly those that are open to the general public on payment of a subscription. According to the United Nations Statistics Division, "wholesale" is the resale of new and used goods to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or to other wholesalers, or involves acting as an agent or broker in buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such persons or companies. Wholesalers frequently physically assemble, sort and grade goods in large lots, break bulk, repack and redistribute in smaller lots. While wholesalers of most products usually operate from independent premises, wholesale marketing for foodstuffs can take place at specific wholesale markets where all traders are congregated. Traditionally, wholesalers were closer to the markets they supplied than the source from which they got the products.
Editors Contribution
wholesale
To buy and sell goods and products at specific quantities.
Wholesale buying and selling is at various quantities.
Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wholesale in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wholesale in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of wholesale in a Sentence
It will take a bit [of time] for the fall in the wholesale prices of natural gas to [feed into] into the retail prices, we’re not really out of the woods.
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Speaker Ryan needs to make it clear that if the President won't stand to protect America from wholesale open borders, then Republicans will, if Ryan will not lead and reject the importation of those fleeing the Middle East without assurances that we can separate refugees from terrorists, then Speaker Ryan needs to step down today and let someone else lead.
If he's the nominee, we're going to have wholesale losses in Congress and state offices and governors and legislatures.
The GB&M business was built for a prior regulatory environment. We have to have acknowledgement from HSBC that this no longer works and that something needs to be done about that, rather than the geographical split that has been mentioned, I think it is more reasonable to consider a functional split between wholesale and retail.
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- a l'engròsCatalan, Valencian
- velkoobchodCzech
- engrosDanish
- GroßhandelGerman
- χονδρικός, χονδρική, χονδρικάGreek
- venta al por mayorSpanish
- hulgimüükEstonian
- عمده فروشیPersian
- tukkukauppaFinnish
- vente en gros, de gros, en grosFrench
- mórdhíolIrish
- थोकHindi
- heildverslun, heildsalaIcelandic
- all'ingrossoItalian
- 卸売りJapanese
- საბითუმო, ბითუმადGeorgian
- 모조리Korean
- groothandelDutch
- engroshandel, en grosNorwegian
- hurtowy, hurtowo, hurtPolish
- atacadoPortuguese
- оптом, оптовыйRussian
- grossistverksamhet, partihandel, grosshandelSwedish
- toptanTurkish
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