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WHOLESALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
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:
Example:
wholesale destruction
Synonyms:
sweeping; wholesale
Classified under:
Similar:
indiscriminate (not marked by fine distinctions)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they wholesale ... he / she / it wholesales
Past simple: wholesaled
-ing form: wholesaling
Sense 1
Meaning:
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 discrimination
Example:
I buy food wholesale
Synonyms:
in large quantities; wholesale
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
I can sell it to you wholesale
Classified under:
Antonym:
retail (at a retail price)