wholesale

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

2. 2

   Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.

3. 3

   Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing

   Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

   • The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
   • But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.
   • By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.
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   1. 4

      In bulk or large quantity.

   2. 5

      Indiscriminately.

      • It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land.
   3. 6

      To sell at wholesale.

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