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    WHOLESALE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumersplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("wholesale" is a kind of...):

    marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)

    Antonym:

    retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)

    Derivation:

    wholesale (sell in large quantities)

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Ignoring distinctionsplay

    Example:

    wholesale destruction

    Synonyms:

    sweeping; wholesale

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    indiscriminate (not marked by fine distinctions)

     III. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they wholesale  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it wholesales  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: wholesaled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: wholesaled  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: wholesaling  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Sell in large quantitiesplay

    Classified under:

    Verbs of buying, selling, owning

    Hypernyms (to "wholesale" is one way to...):

    sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

    Domain category:

    commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Antonym:

    retail (sell on the retail market)

    Derivation:

    wholesale (the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers)

    wholesaler (someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers)

     IV. (adverb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    On a large scale without careful discriminationplay

    Example:

    I buy food wholesale

    Synonyms:

    in large quantities; wholesale

    Classified under:

    Adverbs

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    At a wholesale priceplay

    Example:

    I can sell it to you wholesale

    Classified under:

    Adverbs

    Antonym:

    retail (at a retail price)

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