Definition of wholesale
: the sale of commodities in quantity usually for resale (as by a retail merchant)
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Recent Examples of wholesale from the Web
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The American company Devumi buys bots wholesale from a global market and sells them to social media companies.
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With the loss of domain fronting, users are forced to point at specific IP addresses for proxies in the cloud—addresses that censors can block wholesale.
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The company runs two Cash & Carry business-to-business wholesale operations and two Food Depot stores in Baltimore.
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The new location at 919 20th St. in Sacramento is an expansion of the cooperative’s existing wholesale, retail and café operations.
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Their frozen wholesale pierogies will soon reach even more people.
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Edwards oversaw Nike's wholesale, retail and e-commerce business as the company's No. 2 employee.
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While some mark-up is necessary—three times wholesale is generally considered acceptable, to cover the cost of service—the wine list is too often treated as the restaurant’s prime profit center.
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Sprint’s strategy, according to Samson, is typical of any company that buys a product wholesale from a supplier.
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First Known Use of wholesale
15th century
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Definition of wholesale
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: performed or existing on a large scale especially without discrimination
- wholesale slaughter
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: of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of commodities in quantity for resale
- a wholesale grocer
Examples of wholesale in a Sentence
The crops originated from wholesale growers.
Is that price retail or wholesale?
Recent Examples of wholesale from the Web
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His father was a wholesale paper salesman, and he was raised in Three Rivers, N.J. and several other New Jersey towns, Buffalo and Providence, R.I.
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GoodRx, which tracks drug prices, ranked the most expensive drugs available on an outpatient basis, based on the wholesale acquisition cost that a typical patient in a typical case would typically use in a month.
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In 2017, the wholesale production moved to 1250 Burlington St. in North Kansas City.
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Between events, peruse everything from wholesale rhinestones to art dolls from more than 300 exhibitors.
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Anheuser soon joined forces with his son‐in‐law, Adolphus Busch, who owned a wholesale brewing supply store.
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In 2014, The Bee reported that Blue Bottle Coffee was featured as part of The Trade, Coffee & Coworking at 2220 K St., but as a wholesale account partner.
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Hundreds of thousand of homes and businesses were plunged into darkness amid rolling blackouts, wholesale electricity prices skyrocketed to record levels and the state’s largest utility, PG&E Corp.’s Pacific Gas & Electric, went bankrupt.
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Facing a summer of record-breaking power demand, Texas’ grid operator expects to have more power reserves on hand than originally forecast, possibly easing concerns of summer wholesale price spikes.
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First Known Use of wholesale
1607
Other Business Terms
First Known Use of wholesale
1696
Definition of wholesale
: to sell in quantity usually for resale
Examples of wholesale in a Sentence
The company wholesales clothing to boutiques in the area.
Recent Examples of wholesale from the Web
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The two also wholesale their networks to such third-party resellers as Consumer Cellular, Republic Wireless and Ting; AT&T and in particular, Verizon, are less open to the resellers.
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Expanding from their scoop shop to wholesale deliveries in 1979, the pair quickly brought their frosty wares to the northeast and soon enough across the U.S.
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Investigations by the state police and others showed that Wallin bought large quantities of methamphetamine from two California dealers and distributed the drug to wholesale and retail customers.
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The best option also going forward is probably that the Riksbank sticks to wholesale.
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Today, Andy’s grandson T. J. Murphy is the chief executive of the family’s wholesale spinoff, Baldor Specialty Foods.
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Six days a week, Hawaiian fishermen converge at The Honolulu Fish Auction to sell fresh catches to wholesale and restaurant buyers who then whisk it away for sale in markets and eateries in Hawaii and far beyond.
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Schnapp adopts Calvino’s five surviving topics wholesale: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
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But building is a sustainable business is about making one-on-one connections with individual buyers, then engendering loyalty rather than wholesaling themselves to death.
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First Known Use of wholesale
1792
Other Business Terms
WHOLESALE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of wholesale for English Language Learners
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: the business of selling things in large amounts to other businesses rather than to individual customers
wholesale
Definition of wholesale for English Language Learners
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: relating to the business of selling things in large amounts to other businesses rather than to individual customers
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: affecting large numbers of people or things
wholesale
Definition of wholesale for English Language Learners
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: to sell (things) to other businesses rather than to individual customers
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: to be sold to other businesses for a specified price
WHOLESALE Defined for Kids
Definition of wholesale for Students
: the sale of goods in large quantities to dealers
Definition of wholesale for Students
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: of, relating to, or working at selling to dealers
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: done or happening on a large scale
- wholesale panic
Definition of wholesale for Students
wholesaled;
wholesaling
: to sell to dealers usually in large quantities
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