WHOLESALE
Dictionary entry overview: What does wholesale mean?
• WHOLESALE (noun)
The noun WHOLESALE has 1 sense:
1. the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
Familiarity information: WHOLESALE used as a noun is very rare.
• WHOLESALE (adjective)
The adjective WHOLESALE has 2 senses:
1. selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer
2. ignoring distinctions
Familiarity information: WHOLESALE used as an adjective is rare.
• WHOLESALE (verb)
The verb WHOLESALE has 1 sense:
1. sell in large quantities
Familiarity information: WHOLESALE used as a verb is very rare.
• WHOLESALE (adverb)
The adverb WHOLESALE has 2 senses:
1. at a wholesale price
2. on a large scale without careful discrimination
Familiarity information: WHOLESALE used as an adverb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WHOLESALE (noun)
Meaning:
The selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("wholesale" is a kind of...):
marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)
Antonym:
retail (the selling of goods to consumers; usually in small quantities and not for resale)
• WHOLESALE (adjective)
Meaning:
Selling or related to selling goods in large quantities for resale to the consumer
Context examples:
wholesale prices / a wholesale produce market
Antonym:
retail (selling or related to selling direct to the consumer)
Meaning:
Ignoring distinctions
Synonyms:
sweeping; wholesale
Context examples:
sweeping generalizations / wholesale destruction
Similar:
indiscriminate (not marked by fine distinctions)
• WHOLESALE (verb)
Meaning:
Sell in large quantities
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "wholesale" is one way to...):
sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
retail (sell on the retail market)
• WHOLESALE (adverb)
Meaning:
At a wholesale price
Context example:
I can sell it to you wholesale
Antonym:
retail (at a retail price)
Meaning:
On a large scale without careful discrimination
Synonyms:
in large quantities; wholesale
Context example:
I buy food wholesale
