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BY WHOLESALE

Definition: BY WHOLESALE

BY WHOLESALE

1. In the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. --I. Watts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: BY WHOLESALE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Greatness

Greatly; Adjective: much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds; incalculably, infinitely.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BY WHOLESALE

English words defined with "BY WHOLESALE": By the grossTrade price. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BY WHOLESALE": broker, agricultural produceCIRCULATION-SALES REPRESENTATIVE, COMMISSION AGENT, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, core network businessdetailer, pharmaceuticalsEAC, Economic censusFarm Credit Banksice seller, INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERMANAGER, FAST FOOD SERVICES, MANAGER, PARTS, MANAGER, SALES, manager, stockroom, MarriagesPHARMACEUTICAL DETAILER, PLATFORM ATTENDANT, PUHCAWholesale Price Index/WPI, WTS. (references)
Etymologies containing "BY WHOLESALE": grocer. (references)

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Use in Literature: BY WHOLESALE

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Society, the state, in reducing his savings, had robbed him by wholesale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BY WHOLESALE

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Romania

The product pricing structure is not basically different from that used in developed countries: ex-works prices are increased by wholesale and retail markups as well as with government and, sometimes, local taxes. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

The "general store" concept has been enlarged to include any commercial activity supported by wholesale operations.. Overall, the Lebanese community is strongly represented in retail operations and is well connected to the countrywide wholesale network. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: BY WHOLESALE

Expression using "BY WHOLESALE": sell by wholesale. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BY WHOLESALE

Language Translations for "BY WHOLESALE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

vendre en gros (sell by wholesale). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ybay olesalewhay

   

Russian 

  

оптом (at wholesale, en bloc, in bulk, wholesale). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

en gros (wholesale). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toptan olarak (collectively, in the lump, wholesale), toptan (bulk, collectively, en bloc, gross, in bulk, in the lump, total, wholesale). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BY WHOLESALE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-l-l-o-s-w-y"

-2 letters: wholesale.

-3 letters: eyeballs, showable, sowbelly, walleyes, weaselly.

-4 letters: behowls, bellows, byelaws, eyeball, eyelash, eyewash, halloes, hallows, helloes, hewable, leeways, losable, obesely, sallowy, sewable, shallow, sowable, walleye, weasely, yellows.

-5 letters: abeles, allees, alleys, allows, alloys, ballsy, basely, behowl, belays, belles, bellow, belows, blowsy, boheas, bolshy, bowels, boylas, byelaw, bylaws, elbows, hallos, hallow, haloes, haoles, hellos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BY WHOLESALE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 59      57 48 4F 4C 45 53 41 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01011001 00100000 01010111 01001000 01001111 01001100 01000101 01010011 01000001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#32 &#87 &#72 &#79 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#65 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059      0057 0048 004F 004C 0045 0053 0041 004C 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36592574249463953354639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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