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 ~ prices...
I am in the ~ trade.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N n
2.
If something is sold ~, it is sold in large quantities and at cheaper prices, usually to shopkeepers. (BUSINESS)
The fabrics are sold ~ to retailers, fashion houses, and other manufacturers.
ADV: ADV after v
3.
You use ~ 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 ~ destruction of vegetation...
ADJ: ADJ n emphasis