wholesaling

[hohl-sey-ling]

whole·sal·ing

[hohl-sey-ling]
noun
the business of selling to retailers, especially in large quantities (distinguished from retailing).

Origin:
1790–1800; wholesale + -ing1

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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whole·sale

[hohl-seyl] noun, adjective, adverb, verb, whole·saled, whole·sal·ing.
noun
1.
the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
adjective
2.
of, pertaining to, or engaged in sale by wholesale.
3.
extensive; broadly indiscriminate: wholesale discharge of workers.
adverb
4.
in a wholesale way; on wholesale terms: I can get it for you wholesale.
5.
in large quantities; on a large scale, especially without discrimination: Wild horses were slaughtered wholesale.
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
6.
to sell by wholesale.

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

whole·sal·er, noun


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

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