wholesale
/ˈhoʊlseɪl/
wholesale noun: the sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
Noun
wholesale (countable and uncountable, plural wholesales)
- The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
- Synonyms:
- bulk supply
Adjective
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
- Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
- Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
- The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
- But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217
Adverb
wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)
- In bulk or large quantity.
- Indiscriminately.
- It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land.2023 June 30, Melissa Gira Grant, “The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025
Verb
wholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)
- To sell at wholesale.
wholesale meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
wholesale in Hindi
- sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants
- थोक thok
- of or relating to sale in bulk or large quantity
- थोक thok
- in bulk or large quantity
- थोक thok
wholesale in Tamil
- மொத்த விற்பனை
wholesale in Marathi
- घाऊक
wholesale in Urdu
- تھوک
More languagesFewer languages
- wholesale in Bengali
- পাইকারি, পাইকারিভাবে ফেলা, পাইকারিভাবে
- wholesale in Telugu
- టోకు, హోల్సేల్
- wholesale in Malayalam
- മൊത്തത്തിൽ, ആകപ്പാടെ, വ്യാപകമായി, വിശാലമായി
- wholesale in Kannada
- ಮೊತ್ತದ ಮಾರಾಟ, ಇಡೀ ಮಾರಾಟ, ಒಟ್ಟುಗಟ್ಟಲೆ, ಒಟ್ಟುಗಟ್ಟಳೆ
- wholesale in Punjabi
- ਥੋਕ
- wholesale in Gujarati
- જથ્થાબંધ, જથ્થાબંધ વેચવાલી
- wholesale in Odia
- ଥୋକ thoka
- wholesale in Assamese
- পাইকাৰী paikari
- wholesale in Nepali
- थोक
- wholesale in Tagalog
- pakyaw, pamamakyaw
- wholesale in Arabic
- إِجْمَالِيّ ʔijmāliyy, بِالْجُمْلَةِ bi-l-jumlati, بَيْع بِالْجُمْلَةِ bayʕ bi-l-jumlati
- wholesale in Indonesian
- borong
- wholesale in Persian
- عمدهفروشی 'omde-foruši
- wholesale in Thai
- การขายส่ง, การค้าส่ง, ขายส่ง, ค้าส่ง
- wholesale in Vietnamese
- bán sỉ
Examples of wholesale in a sentence
- That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.
- This is a planned city, built wholesale from scratch, and coloured with a mimetic sense of humour.
- Plans are under way to build a garment manufacturing and wholesale hub.
Synonyms of wholesale
Antonyms
Forms of wholesale
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wholesales |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more wholesale |
| superlative | most wholesale |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more wholesale |
| superlative | most wholesale |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wholesales |
| present participle | wholesaling |
| past participle | wholesaled |
| past | wholesaled |
Origin of wholesale
From whole + sale.
Words formed from wholesale
Questions about wholesale
- What does wholesale mean?
- Wholesale means the sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
- What is wholesale in Hindi?
- Wholesale in Hindi is थोक (thok). See Wholesale meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wholesale?
- Wholesale can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wholesale?
- Wholesale is pronounced /ˈhoʊlseɪl/.
- What is the plural of wholesale?
- The plural of wholesale is wholesales.
Words near wholesale in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wholesale (page history and authors); wholesale (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wholesale (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wholesale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wholesale (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wholesale (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wholesale (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wholesale (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wholesale (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wholesale (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଥୋକ (Odia) (page history and authors); wholesale (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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