Definition of wholesale
: the sale of commodities in quantity usually for resale (as by a retail merchant)
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Until the fish are actually sold at wholesale, prices are in flux.
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If things are to change, the state must appeal the earlier ruling, which stops the agency from allowing non-alcohol wholesales from becoming distributors.
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According to documents shared with the Miami Herald by congressional investigators, Postar was allegedly paying $22.22 for a box of assorted food products that cost $12.44 wholesale in Mexico.
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Within two years, British subjects began killing each other wholesale at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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The first batch of clothes are already out and being sold wholesale at TSC Apparel, a site Charney claims is one of the top three screen printers in the country.
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The seventh Los Angeles Design Festival, June 8-11, will highlight two of those venues — City Market South, a former wholesale produce mart, and the 30-acre Row DTLA, a mixed-use site that received an update recently from Rios Clementi Hale Studios.
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The first step, though, would likely be for the House to repeal the ACA wholesale — giving Republicans political cover.
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Strategic fashion now favors retail—selling goods directly to customers from opulent city-centre shops—over less controllable wholesale and licensing business.
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First Known Use of wholesale
15th century
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wholesale
Definition of wholesale
1 : performed or existing on a large scale especially without discrimination wholesale slaughter
2 : 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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The regime in Tehran never had any intention of keeping its word, and the Obama administration was merely seeking to postpone Iran’s nuclear capacity by a few years and claim the postponement as a wholesale victory.
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Store in OTR closing to focus on online and wholesale business.
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The wholesale bakery is the latest new business looking to fill one of several vacant buildings along Broadway, north of U.S. 30.
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Appropriation is taking a source wholesale, but re-contextualizing its meaning by acknowledging the difference between its original source and your own intentions.
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Qatar has rejected the demands, saying that agreeing to them wholesale would undermine its sovereignty.
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Wholesale beef is up 11 percent this year to $2.2473 a pound.
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Something else that pulled Avril's into the thick of Cincinnati's local food culture is a growing wholesale business to restaurants.
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Jim Hyde is president of wholesale and affiliate partnerships.
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First Known Use of wholesale
1607
Other Business Terms
wholesale
Definition of wholesale
: in a wholesale manner
First Known Use of wholesale
1696
wholesale
Definition of wholesale
wholesaled
;wholesaling
transitive verb
: to sell (something) in quantity usually for resale
intransitive verb
: to sell in quantity usually for resale
Examples of wholesale in a Sentence
The company wholesales clothing to boutiques in the area.
First Known Use of wholesale
1792
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WHOLESALE Defined for English Language Learners
wholesale
playDefinition 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
1 : of, relating to, or working at selling to dealers
2 : done or happening on a large scale wholesale panic
Definition of wholesale for Students
wholesaled
;wholesaling
: to sell to dealers usually in large quantities
wholesaler
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