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Wholesale   /hˈoʊlsˌeɪl/   Listen
adjective
Wholesale  adj.  
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."



noun
Wholesale  n.  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."






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"Wholesale" Quotes from Famous Books



... &c. 33; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge &c. (large in size) 192; Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant &c. (enough) 639 full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith. world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many &c. 102. goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... individuals living by their labor, nearly three-fourths either are imprudent, lazy, and depraved, since they do not deposit in the savings banks, or are too poor to lay up anything. There is no other alternative. But common sense, to say nothing of charity, permits no wholesale accusation of the laboring class: it is necessary, therefore, to throw the blame back upon our economic system. How is it that M. Fix did not see that his figures ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... 436.).—The following wholesale assassination of the English language was perpetrated in the form of a circular, and distributed among the British residents ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 • Various

... her motley productions, and if you are born for such "universalism," you may swallow them wholesale. The danger of such a downright manner of going to work is that it blunts one's critical sense. If you swallow everything just as it is, you taste very little. But Charles Lamb is nothing if not "critical," nothing ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys

... and that treachery would shrink from nothing. And to meet it, the English on the spot—all but a few who were denounced as unpractical sentimentalists for favouring an irreconcilable foe—could think of no way of enforcing order, except by a wholesale use of the sword and the gallows. They could find no means of restoring peace except turning the rich land into a wilderness, and rooting out by famine those whom the soldier or the hangman had not overtaken. "No governor shall do any good here," ...
— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church


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