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[hohl-seyl]

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noun

the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or engaged in sale by wholesale.

extensive; broadly indiscriminate: wholesale discharge of workers.

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adverb

in a wholesale way; on wholesale terms: I can get it for you wholesale.

in large quantities; on a large scale, especially without discrimination: Wild horses were slaughtered wholesale.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to sell by wholesale.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English, from the phrase by hole sale in gross; see whole, sale

Related forms

whole·sal·er, noun

Synonyms
3. far-reaching, comprehensive, thorough, inclusive; undiscriminating, promiscuous.

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Wholesale sales rose as well, at the fastest pace in five months.

They probably wouldn't react well to a wholesale change of direction.

Yet so far the recession has not produced a wholesale retreat from corporate do-gooding.

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Wholesale sales rose as well, at the fastest pace in five months.

They probably wouldn't react well to a wholesale change of direction.

Yet so far the recession has not produced a wholesale retreat from corporate do-gooding.

And this is at a discount to the wholesale price of power, because the power companies have to pay for upkeep of the grid.

At the time, auctions generally operated as a wholesale market, where dealers acquired stock.

The wholesale grower has added a new feature on its website to help homeowners and landscape professionals connect.

Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying.

The retail price of apples did not drop materially, although the wholesale price.

Ad hoc working groups, created around specific issues and with defined life spans, are far preferable to wholesale restructuring.

Yet this wholesale market will be used to calculate the new low-carbon contracts.

Wholesale slaughter fueled by the international ivory trade has left only about ten thousand elephants alive in the region today.

The wholesale trading of letters is what the psychologists were actually observing:.

America retailers have left themselves quite vulnerable to both wholesale shortages and consumer demand spikes.

Henshaw, head of one of the large wholesale flower houses in the city, said yesterday.

Hint: the paper was deploring the wholesale murder of a group of people.

The maturity of banks' wholesale liabilities is nicely spread out.

His military conquests were frequently characterized by the wholesale slaughter of the vanquished.

And so the wholesale onslaught on phthalates continues.

It's also, by any reading of the law, a vast criminal enterprise engaged in wholesale copyright infringement.

The housewife may expect a drop in sugar cost if current price movements in the wholesale markets prevail.

So don't, in turn, reject people wholesale for their official rejection of you.

Stores have seen waves of panic buying, and a wholesale warehouse was looted.

Most seeds available in both retail and wholesale outlets are hybrids or genetically engineered in some way.

It will simply pack up and move wholesale to areas not being run by drooling mouth breathers.

Taken in total, the iPhone app store could lead to a wholesale change in the way music is.

All this is happening because wholesale chicken prices have turned upside down.

With the exception of a couple, our state system has seen a wholesale reduction of counseling staff.

Small banks with a liking for the moribund wholesale markets as sources of funding are not much in vogue nowadays.

The magnitude and multiplicity of miseries in that plagued continent are not subject to any wholesale fix.

Some people may actually prefer sensing immediate pain wholesale by weathering it out in a scaled and proportionate manner.

Such wholesale obfuscation can't be done on an ad-hoc basis, or by a loose coalition of existing agencies.

Joyce knows the danger of such wholesale dismissals.

New wholesale outlets will be set up where supplies can be bought.

Retailers need to adjust their prices quickly when the wholesale charge increases.

There has been wholesale use of the government and it's resources for the benefit of a few.

The technology to create wholesale alterations in the genome, and to take charge of human evolution, is already in development.

It is another to deny the validity wholesale of positions taken by the consensus of your field.

The biggest upheavals in pay and in risk management will be in wholesale banking.

Ecological and archaeological sites are at extreme risk if wholesale diving, fishing and cruise ship access happen.

It shouldn't take thousands of tests to fine tune wholesale destruction.

Besides, wind electricity in many places is already cheaper than wholesale electricity prices.

Only the strongest banks have access to wholesale markets, and at high cost.

Walrus populations were in serious decline during centuries of wholesale slaughter for their blubber and tusks.

Cloning is the subject of fierce debate, with proposals for wholesale bans.

Their wholesale customers might even include some of the big fish-processing plants:.

They will cut their dependence on wholesale funding, and grow more slowly as a result.

Falling wholesale prices caused by overproduction has created a crisis for coffee farmers worldwide.

Some of those that are trying hardest to get into investment banking are wholesale banks.

When the blackout struck, prices in the unregulated wholesale market were about three times the fixed retail price.

They didn't even inform the wholesale customers that they were going to do this.

But three things argue against wholesale regulation.

And price pressures are building at the wholesale level.

Capital-markets firms are courting deposits and shunning flighty wholesale funding.

During a wholesale revision of the tax code they might yet have their day.

But, though desirable, such wholesale reform to an entrenched system may well be too disruptive in a young democracy.

For several years politicians have preferred a temporary fix rather than wholesale reform.

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wholesale (ˈhəʊlˌseɪl)

—n
1.	Compare retail the business of selling goods to retailers in larger quantities than they are sold to final consumers but in smaller quantities than they are purchased from manufacturers
2.	at wholesale
	a. in large quantities
	b. at wholesale prices

—*adj*
3.	of, relating to, or engaged in such business
4.	made, done, etc, on a large scale or without discrimination

—*adv*
5.	on a large scale or without discrimination

—vb
6.	to sell (goods) at wholesale

'wholesaler

—n

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Word Origin & History

wholesale

c.1417, "in large quantities," from whole + sale; the general sense of "extensive" is attested from 1642.

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