wholesale

noun

• the business of selling of goods in large quantities and at low prices, typically to be sold on by retailers at a profit:if you want to sell large expensive pieces then wholesale is probably not the way to go [as modifier]:the manufacturer’s wholesale price

adverb

• 1being sold to retailers in large quantities and at low prices:bottles from this region sell wholesale at about £72 a case

• 2as a whole and in an indiscriminate way:the safety clauses seem to have been taken wholesale from union documents

adjective

• done on a large scale; extensive:the wholesale destruction of these animals by poachers

verb

• sell (goods) in large quantities at low prices, to be sold on at a profit: imported clothing, which he now wholesales to 20 retail stores (as noun wholesaling)the company is particularly strong in wholesaling