Thesaurus: wholesale

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1. n. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
2. a. 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.
3. a. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter.
4. adj. ignoring distinctions
5. n. the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
6. adv. at a wholesale price
7. adv. on a large scale without careful discrimination
8. v. sell in large quantities
9. 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. 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.
10. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguishedfrom retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; withoutdistinction or discrimination.Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throwcontempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.
11. r:4/j:93/n:3 n. the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers v. sell in large quantities r. at a wholesale price r. on a large scale without careful discrimination