wholesale: Meaning and Definition of

whole•sale

1. the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).

1. of, pertaining to, or engaged in sale by wholesale.
2. extensive; broadly indiscriminate: wholesale discharge of workers.

1. in a wholesale way; on wholesale terms: I can get it for you wholesale.
2. in large quantities; on a large scale, esp. without discrimination: Wild horses were slaughtered wholesale.

1. to sell by wholesale.