Meaning & use
wholesale
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Relating to the sale of goods in large quantities, typically to retailers, rather than in small amounts to individual customers.
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The furniture is sold at wholesale prices to store owners.
Buying wholesale can save small business owners a lot of money.
A note on using this word
Also used more broadly to mean "sweeping" or "extensive," as in "wholesale changes."
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retail
Another way to use it
2. adjective
Done on a large scale and without careful discrimination; sweeping.
The new CEO made wholesale changes to the company's structure.
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