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• That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.From the entry snip
• This is a planned city, built wholesale from scratch, and coloured with a mimetic sense of humour.2022 November 27, Barney Ronay, “Welcome to Lusail: Lego-city of the gods and one of the strangest places on earth”, in The Guardian. From the entry mimetic
• Plans are under way to build a garment manufacturing and wholesale hub.2014 June 29, Mandy Zuo, “Yongqing in Hebei may realise 'liveable suburb' dream thanks to greater Beijing integration”, in South China…. From the entry Yongqing
• Wholesale buyers and curious onlookers pack Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market at the break of day.2001 August 6, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, “Wailing Over Whales”, in Time. From the entry break of day
• The wholesale vegetable market in Jiang County, Shanxi Province, was formed in the following way.1998, Kate Xiao Zhou, “Markets: The Currents in the Farmer Sea”, in How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People, Westview Press…. From the entry Jiang
• The client company sold pipe both in tons (wholesale) and eaches (retail).1995, Ronald Hughes, Zinc It!: Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Crossplatform GUI'S, John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc., →ISBN, page…. From the entry eaches
• This area is the scene of lively produce markets and wholesale fruit markets in the morning.1994, Roger Grigsby, “Tour No. 3, Hong Kong: A Trip to the Outlying Islands—Hong Kong to Lantau Island and back”, in Taiwan, Hong Kong…. From the entry Yau Ma Ti
• Even doddards were cut wholesale to provide ‘knees’ and ‘crooks’ used in ship frames.1987, Phil Colebourn, Bob Gibbons, Britain’s Natural Heritage: Reading Our Countryside’s Past, London: Book Club Associates, →OCLC, page…. From the entry doddard
• The average postwar recession showed a 1.4 per cent decline in industrial wholesale prices.1970 August 14, Henry J. Taylor, “Where Do We Stand Now?”, in Prescott Evening Courier. From the entry Matterhorn
• One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent.1956, Purdue University. Agricultural Experiment Station., Station bulletin, page 25. From the entry homo
• China needs to know the United States will not tolerate the wholesale thievery of U.S. technology and trade secrets.2017, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary: Time to Get Tough: Review and Analysis of Donald Trump's Book, Primento, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry stand up
• So, salami tactics are more likely than wholesale closures.2011 June 2, “And now for something completely different”, in The Economist. From the entry salami tactics
• The wholesale slaughter of thousands of pigs has predictably drawn the protests of animal welfare and rights groups.2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 324–325. From the entry predictably
• The "marketing" centers consisted of the metropolitan districts that were above average in wholesale sales but low in industrial employment.1953, Chester Rapkin, Housing Market Analysis: A Study of Theory and Methods, page 61. From the entry institutional
• That wouldn’t count so much if it was all ‘tribal’; but he’s ‘gone cheeky’ and threatens wholesale murder.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 46. From the entry tribal
• "But what is embezzlement on the top of wholesale murder!"1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry embezzlement
• Sven Kristensen, CEO of Wuerth Denmark, a multi-national wholesale organization says EI is so important that they’ve built the BCS training into their leadership programme.2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN. From the entry bcs
• Many tenants complained that the wholesale price they paid for tied products was excessive, which made them uncompetitive in their local marketplace.2009, “House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry Second Report.”, in Hansard. From the entry pubco
• The first solution — the least likely to be acceptable in the hog industry — is to ban the wholesale, herdwide use of antibiotics.2007 September 18, “Antibiotic Runoff”, in New York Times. From the entry herdwide
• Thus, retail nursery managers have an important role in educating both the consumer public and the wholesale nursery sector in environmental weed issues.2004, John Mason, “Selecting and Managing Nursery Stock”, in Nursery Management, 2nd edition, Collingwood, Vic.: Landlinks Press, →ISBN…. From the entry nursery
• We hear of pestilence of Biblical or Koranic proportions: plagues, locusts, famine, wars, wholesale displacement of peoples, diseases, some of which are incurable.1989, Nigeria Since Independence: The First Twenty-Five Years, Heinemann Educational, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry of Koranic proportions
• Wholesale trade was also for the most part private, particularly in Czechoslovakia where war-time destruction had not been great, and gave rise to considerable profits.1972, Dorothy W. Douglas with Lynn Turgeon, chapter XV, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London…. From the entry war-time
• Despite their novelty, the arithmetics just described could not fill all the needs of wholesale merchants, bankers, and others with extensive commercial activity.1960, Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 21. From the entry reckonmaster
• Ike explained to me that the Mexican government issued permits to hips allowing them a definite quantity of morphine per month at wholesale prices.1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books. From the entry hip
• There was no counterdemolition to retaliate for the wholesale destruction carried out by the Civil Guards in the Finnish territory ceded to Russia.1943, Gregory Meiksins, chapter X, in The Baltic Riddle, New York: L. B. Fischer, page 185. From the entry counterdemolition
• Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.1942 May-June, “Theft on the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 130. From the entry appalling
• As it was, they were unable to discuss the details severally as they would have done had murder not become thus wholesale.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 162. From the entry severally
• This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.1925, Domestic Commerce Series, page 32. From the entry walk-in
• There was also a seedhouse which sold (both retail and wholesale with discount) vegetable, flower and agricultural seeds as well as garden tools and 'other requisites'.2012, Sue Shephard, Seeds of Fortune: A Gardening Dynasty, →ISBN. From the entry seedhouse
• In PNG we would buy beer wholesale at around 10 cents per stubbie or can, and sell it to ourselves at 20 cents per stubbie or can.2011, S. J. Waddell, Exploration Days: An a to Z of Ways of Dying in Mineral Exploration, Xlibris, page 76. From the entry stubbie
• Besides the use of derbends to control mountain passes, the state sometimes engaged in the wholesale removal of troublesome mountain villages, forcibly resettling them in the valleys.2011, Sam White, The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry derbend
• However, pubcos told us their wholesale selling price was broadly similar to the standard national wholesale prices, before discount, published by the brewers and charged to free house operators.2009, “House of Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry Second Report.”, in Hansard. From the entry pubco
• Tip greens - the new growth at the ends of branches - are often harvested either for the wholesale or retail market, or for one's own processing.1989, Lewis Hill, Christmas Trees: Growing and Selling Trees, Wreaths, and Greens, →ISBN. From the entry greens
• There is no doubt it would be folly for the translator to adopt wholesale the terms and concepts of poro in his translation of the Bible into Guhu-Samane.1965, Ernest L. Richert, “How the Guhu-Samane Cult of ‘Poro’ Affects Translation”, in The Bible Translator, volume 16, number 2, page 85. From the entry Guhu-Samane
• It is particularly desirable to obtain photographs of rural stations, both with and without a train, in view of the threatened wholesale closure of unremunerative branches throughout the country.1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78. From the entry threatened
• Smoked picnics of medium weights - from 6 to 8 pounds - are selling at wholesale at present for about half the price of fancy hams.1923, The National Provisioner, page 50. From the entry picnic

Meaning of wholesale

1. noun The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
2. adjective Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
3. adjective Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

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How do you use wholesale in a sentence?

Wholesale is used as a noun, adjective and adverb. For example: “The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.”

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“The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.”

What does wholesale mean?

Wholesale means the sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.