Wholesale

Definition: Wholesale

Wholesale

Adjective

1. Selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer; "wholesale prices"; "a wholesale produce market".

2. Ignoring distinctions; "indiscriminate slaughter of a population"; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction".

Adverb

1. At a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale".

2. On a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale".

Noun

1. The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers.

Verb

1. Sell in large quantities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wholesale" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Wholesale

Barter

Wholesale, retail.

Discount

Wholesale, wholesale price; dealer's price; trade price.

Adverb: at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business.

Greatness

World-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many.

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.

Sufficiency

Full.; (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; Verb: replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale.

Whole

Wholesale, sweeping; comprehensive.

Adverb: wholly, altogether; totally; (completely); entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch; substantially.

Crosswords: Wholesale

So You Want to Get It Wholesale (1952)

I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)

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

References

• Costco Wholesale Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• BJ's Wholesale Club Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Retail and Wholesale Distribution in Hungary: A Strategic Entry Report, 1998 (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Wholesale Electrical Goods: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Wholesale Distribution: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Buy Wholesale by Mail 1999 (Serial) (reference)

• Small Design Company's Guide to Wholesale Fabrics (reference)

• Streaming the Process: The Impact of Digital Technology on the Wholesale Photofinishing Environment [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• There's No Sale Like Wholesale: A Directory of Wholesale and Factory Outlet Shopping in Southern California (reference)

• US-Trader's US Wholesale Guide [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• National Wholesale Druggist Association Executive Newsletter (reference)

• Wholesale And Distribution Report (reference)

• Wholesale Insurance News (reference)

• Wholesale Price Index (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

• Wholesale Meats and Fish (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Scanning at wholesale club checkout in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk bread products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk rice in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk salad dressing in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk dry goods in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk vegetables in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk meat products in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Bulk fruit and vegetables in a wholesale club in VA. Credit: USDA.

Wholesale club. Credit: USDA.

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Pricing is an important factor at the wholesale level. (references)

The power market is divided into the wholesale market and end user market. (references)

They also provide storage capacities for the wholesale trade and specialty stores. (references)

Economic History

India

Many wholesalers operate out of wholesale markets. (references)

Denmark

These have substantial in-house wholesale and import divisions. (references)

Chad

Most goods sold in Chad are from wholesale import/export houses. (references)

Political Economy

IRELAND

The new Irish legislation is a wholesale reform of previous Irish IPR law. (references)

HUNGARY

The government offers a wholesale floor price for many agricultural products. (references)

VENEZUELA

Exporters can also get a rebate of the 14.5 percent wholesale tax levied on imported inputs. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Only wholesale traded goods are generally accepted. (references)

Peru

The amount is adjusted quarterly on the basis of the wholesale price index. (references)

Bulgaria

Imports of pharmaceuticals also require a copy of the license for wholesale trade. (references)

Worker Rights

Maldives

The approximately 27,000 foreigners who work in the country make up almost half of the workers in the formal sector; most are employed in hotels, the retail and wholesale trade, factories, or on construction projects. (references)

Pakistan

The majority (67 percent) of child laborers worked in agriculture, forestry, hunting, and fishing industries; 11 percent in the manufacturing sector, 9 percent in wholesale and retail, and 8 percent in social and personal services. (references)

Vanuatu

In addition membership in the Vanuatu Public Servants Union fell dramatically following the Government's wholesale dismissal of hundreds of full-time public servants during a protracted general strike in 1994. The Supreme Court in 1994 ruled that the union had not complied with its own rules when it undertook the general strike and declared the strike illegal. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "wholesale": at wholesale ♦ by wholesale ♦ sell by wholesale ♦ wholesale business ♦ wholesale charter rate ♦ wholesale dealer ♦ wholesale dealers ♦ wholesale goods ♦ wholesale house ♦ wholesale market ♦ wholesale merchant ♦ wholesale price ♦ wholesale price index ♦ wholesale slaughter ♦ wholesale trade. Additional references.

Beginning with "wholesale": wholesale-financed.

Albanian

shitje me shumicë, në seri, në masë (in bulk, mass), me shumicë (copious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جملي, ‏بيع بالجملة, ‏بالجملة (in one word). (various references)

Bulgarian 

на едро (deep, large). (various references)

Chinese 

躉 , 批發 , 批发. (various references)

Czech

velkoobchodní, velkoobchod, ve velkém (in gross, in large), totální (absolute, all out, blank, hopeless, total, utter), masový, hromadný (collective, summary), hromadnì (in bulk), šmahem. (various references)

Danish

Protokol angaaende begraensning og regulering af dyrkning af valmueplanten fremstilling af international og engros handel med samt brug af opium (as well as the production, Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the International and Wholesale Trade and the Use of Opium), grossist (wholesale dealer, wholesaler), fjerkrae og vildt (Egg Products, European Union for the Wholesale Trade in Eggs, Poultry and Game), engros-markedet for blomster (flower wholesale market, wholesale market for flowers), drikkevare-engroshandel (licensed wholesale trade), den europaeiske union for engros-handelen med aeg (Egg Products, European Union for the Wholesale Trade in Eggs, Poultry and Game), aeggeprodukter (Egg Products, European Union for the Wholesale Trade in Eggs, Poultry and Game). (various references)

Dutch

in het groot (general, vague). (various references)

Esperanto

pogrande. (various references)

Faeroese

í heilsølu. (various references)

Farsi 

عمده فروشی کردن , عمده فروشی , بطوریکجا. (various references)

Finnish

tukuittain, tukkukauppa (licensed wholesale trade), summittain (summarily). (various references)

French

en gros. (various references)

German

Großhandel (wholesale trade, wholesaling). (various references)

Greek 

χοντρικώσ (in bulk), χοντρική πώληση, χονδρικόσ (bulk, gross), χονδρική πώλησισ, χονδρική πώληση, χονδρεμπόριο. (various references)

Hebrew 

מסחר סטו� אי, בסיטו� אות (grossly, in bulk), סיטו� י, סיטו� ות. (various references)

Hungarian

nagybani eladás, nagybani. (various references)

Indonesian

perkulakan (grocery), kulakan, borongan (job-work, total sale, work contracted). (various references)

Italian

vendita a ingrosso, in massa (bodily), in blocco (en bloc), a ingrosso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

卸し売り , 卸売　, 卸売り , 卸売 , 卸し , 卸 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おろしうり, おろし (grated radish, grater, grating, wind blowing down from mountains). (various references)

Korean 

도매. (various references)

Manx

slanechreck, er y slanechreck. (various references)

Pig Latin

olesalewhay.(various references)

Portuguese

venda por atacado (outright sale). (various references)

Romanian

vânzare cu ridicata, masiv (big, bulky, burly, fat, full, heap, heavy, massif, massive, massively, massy, portly, rugged, solid, stout, substantial, unwieldy, voluminous), deplin (absolute, blank, complete, dead, entire, full, plenary, quite, stark, total, whole, wholly), cu toptanul (in the lump), angro (lump). (various references)

Russian 

оптовая торговля/ .оптовый, оптовая торговля (wholesales, wholesaling, whsle wholesale), оптом (at wholesale, by wholesale, en bloc, in bulk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prodaja naveliko, prodaja na veliko. (various references)

Spanish

venta al por mayor. (various references)

Swedish

utan urskillning (indiscriminately), sälja i parti, partihandel (wholesale trade), parti- (factional, factious), mass-, i stor skala (in large, large scale, largely, on a large scale), i parti, grossist-, grosshandel (wholesale trade, wholesale-trade), engroshandel, en gros (by wholesale). (various references)

Turkish

toptan satılan, toptan satış, toptan olarak (by wholesale, collectively, in the lump), toptan (bulk, by wholesale, collectively, en bloc, gross, in bulk, in the lump, total), geniş çapta (large scale), büyük çapta (on a large scale). (various references)

Turkmen 

lomaяlygyna, lomaя sцwda, lomaя. (various references)

Ukrainian

огульно (negatively), огульний (sweeping), оптова торгівля, оптовий, оптом (grossly, in bulk), масовий (mass, massive), провадити оптову торгівлю. (various references)

Vietnamese 

c khối. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wholesale": wholesaled, wholesaler, wholesalers, wholesales. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wholesale" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hollisae, wholescale, wholesole, wholsale. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: halloes, hallows, helloes, shallow.

-3 letters: allees, allows, hallos, hallow, haloes, haoles, hellos, hollas, sallow, weasel, whales, wheals, wheels, wholes.

-4 letters: allee, allow, aloes, awols, easel, hales, hallo, halls, halos, haole, hawse, heals, heels, hello, hells, helos, holes, holla, hosel, howes, howls, lease, leash, losel, lowes, lowse, ollas, salol, selah, selle, shale, shall, shawl.

+1 letter: wholesaled, wholesaler, wholesales.

+2 letters: wholesalers.

+4 letters: shallownesses, yellowhammers.