wholesale meaning
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US WWholesale
- Wholesaling, jobbing, or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services.
- According to the United Nations Statistics Division, "wholesale" is the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or to other wholesalers,
- Traditionally, wholesalers were closer to the markets they supplied than the source from which they got the products.
- NounPLwholesales
- VerbSGwholesalesPRwholesalingPT, PPwholesaled
- To sell at wholesale.
- To sell at wholesale.
- AdjectiveCOMmore wholesaleSUPmost wholesale
- Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
- Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
- The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
- Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
- AdverbCOMmore wholesaleSUPmost wholesale
- In bulk or large quantity.
- Indiscriminately.
- In bulk or large quantity.
Definition of wholesale in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Adjectives
- en wholesaler
- en wholesales
- en wholesaled
- en wholesalers
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "wholesale" is an adjective. It's also an adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.