transcription, транскрипция: [ hoʊlseɪl ]
1.
Wholesale is the activity of buying and selling goods in large quantities and therefore at cheaper prices, usually to shopkeepers who then sell them to the public. Compare retail . ( BUSINESS )
Warehouse clubs allow members to buy goods at wholesale prices...
I am in the wholesale trade.
N-UNCOUNT : usu N n
2.
If something is sold wholesale , it is sold in large quantities and at cheaper prices, usually to shopkeepers. ( BUSINESS )
The fabrics are sold wholesale to retailers, fashion houses, and other manufacturers.
ADV : ADV after v
3.
You use wholesale to describe the destruction, removal, or changing of something when it affects a very large number of things or people.
They are only doing what is necessary to prevent wholesale destruction of vegetation...
ADJ : ADJ n [ emphasis ]