wholesale sales rose as well, at the fastest pace in five months.
And this is at a discount to the wholesale price of power, because the power companies have to pay for upkeep of the grid.
Supporters of wholesale government surveillance are fond of saying that only the guilty should be worried about spying.
The housewife may expect a drop in sugar cost if current price movements in the wholesale markets prevail.
So don't, in turn, reject people wholesale for their official rejection of you.
Stores have seen waves of panic buying, and a wholesale warehouse was looted.
It will simply pack up and move wholesale to areas not being run by drooling mouth breathers.
With the exception of a couple, our state system has seen a wholesale reduction of counseling staff.
Some people may actually prefer sensing immediate pain wholesale by weathering it out in a scaled and proportionate manner.
New wholesale outlets will be set up where supplies can be bought.
British Dictionary definitions for wholesale
wholesale
/ˈhəʊlˌseɪl/
noun
1.
the business of selling goods to retailers in larger quantities than they are sold to final consumers but in smaller quantities than they are purchased from manufacturers Compare retail (sense 1)
2.
at wholesale
in large quantities
at wholesale prices
adjective
3.
of, relating to, or engaged in such business
4.
made, done, etc, on a large scale or without discrimination
adverb
5.
on a large scale or without discrimination
verb
6.
to sell (goods) at wholesale
Derived Forms
wholesaler, noun
Word Origin and History for wholesale
early 15c., "in large quantities," from whole + sale; the general sense of "extensive" is attested from 1640s.
wholesale in Culture
wholesale definition
The sale of merchandise to retailers rather than directly to the public.