Category:Wholesale

Whole"sale`, n.

Defn: sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished From retail. By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without Distinction or discrimination. Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw Contempt upon it by wholesale. I. Watts.

Wholesale Whole"sale`, a.

1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large Quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; As, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.

2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "a time for Wholesale trust." Mrs. Humphry ward.