Wholesale
noun
The selling of goods in large quantities to be retailed by others.
He works in wholesale distribution of household appliances.
Often appears as...
- wholesale business
- wholesale price
adjective
Being sold or done on a large scale.
There has been wholesale destruction of the rainforest.
Often appears as...
- wholesale changes
- wholesale slaughter
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Disapproving
adverb
Being done across a wide area or on a large scale, often without careful or thorough thinking.
Employees were dismissed wholesale.
Often appears as...
- dismissed wholesale
- adopted wholesale
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The selling of goods in large quantities to be retailed by others.
He works in wholesale distribution of household appliances.
Often appears as...
- wholesale business
- wholesale price
adjective
Being sold or done on a large scale.
There has been wholesale destruction of the rainforest.
Often appears as...
- wholesale changes
- wholesale slaughter
Usage tips
Disapproving
adverb
Being done across a wide area or on a large scale, often without careful or thorough thinking.
Employees were dismissed wholesale.
Often appears as...
- dismissed wholesale
- adopted wholesale
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Used in commerce, 'wholesale' often refers to business-to-business sales, not to general public.
She runs a wholesale bakery supplying bread to local shops.
Pro Tip 2/3Price Implication
'Wholesale price' means the cost is usually lower than retail due to the large quantity.
We offer a discount on the wholesale price for orders over 500 units.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For End-User
'Wholesale' items are typically purchased for resale or business use, not by the final consumer.
Retail stores buy products at wholesale prices before adding a markup.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Used in commerce, 'wholesale' often refers to business-to-business sales, not to general public.
She runs a wholesale bakery supplying bread to local shops.
Pro Tip 2/3Price Implication
'Wholesale price' means the cost is usually lower than retail due to the large quantity.
We offer a discount on the wholesale price for orders over 500 units.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For End-User
'Wholesale' items are typically purchased for resale or business use, not by the final consumer.
Retail stores buy products at wholesale prices before adding a markup.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Used in commerce, 'wholesale' often refers to business-to-business sales, not to general public.
She runs a wholesale bakery supplying bread to local shops.
Pro Tip 2/3Price Implication
'Wholesale price' means the cost is usually lower than retail due to the large quantity.
We offer a discount on the wholesale price for orders over 500 units.
Pro Tip 3/3Not For End-User
'Wholesale' items are typically purchased for resale or business use, not by the final consumer.
Retail stores buy products at wholesale prices before adding a markup.
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Let's raise kids to be...
things at wholesale and at nine years old I walked around in the city of Sudbury selling license protectors door-to-door to houses and I remember this one customer who so vividly because I could never sue did some other stuff with these clients I sold newspapers and he wouldn't buy a newspaper from me ever but I was convinced I was going to him
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3 creative ways to fix...
I work in the fashion industry on the wholesale side, and I started to see some of the products that we sell end up on the racks of these thrift stores. So the question started to work its way into my work life, as well. I did some research and I pretty quickly found a very scary supply chain that led me to some pretty troubling realities.
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Cameron Herold: Let's...
I sold license plate protectors door to door. My dad actually made me go find someone who would sell me them at wholesale. At nine years old, I walked around in the city of Sudbury selling license-plate protectors door to door. And I remember this one customer so vividly -- I also did some other stuff with these clients, I sold newspapers,
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Kathy Hannun: How to...
As each home switches over, a new kind of utility is taking hold -- a distributed utility, made up of homes exchanging renewable energy with the ground. This new infrastructure is simple, local and inexpensive to operate, and it represents a permanent and wholesale shift away from fossil fuels. The groundwork is being laid, so to speak,
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Coffee Currency PIPE Hard...
bulletproof in prison and a jailhouse lawyer and a store man are probably the two most important things in prison in that order for the inmates with money on their account the most lucrative hustle is running an underground store from a cell similar to buying wholesale and selling
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How to seek truth in the...
And what we faced was the wholesale violation, not just of human rights, but all the way to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and that has been adjudicated in the highest war crimes court in the world. So, we know what we were seeing. Trying to tell the world what we were seeing
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Laws that choke...
people taking other people's content in wholesale and distributing it without the permission of the copyright owner. I'm talking about people taking and recreating using other people's content, using digital technologies to say things differently. Now, the importance of this
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How the NSA betrayed the...
And this kind of wholesale surveillance means that they can collect our data and keep it basically forever, keep it for extended periods of time, keep it for years, keep it for decades. And this opens up completely new kinds of risks
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Laura Schulz: The...
one of the fundamental problems of cognitive science with a single witticism. He said, "There's something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment in fact."
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What it takes to make...
to everyone who wants to create change in this world in ways that only they can do. That generation is in the streets. They are crying urgently for wholesale change against racial injustice,
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Let's raise kids to be...
things at wholesale and at nine years old I walked around in the city of Sudbury selling license protectors door-to-door to houses and I remember this one customer who so vividly because I could never sue did some other stuff with these clients I sold newspapers and he wouldn't buy a newspaper from me ever but I was convinced I was going to him
Video examples
3 creative ways to fix...
I work in the fashion industry on the wholesale side, and I started to see some of the products that we sell end up on the racks of these thrift stores. So the question started to work its way into my work life, as well. I did some research and I pretty quickly found a very scary supply chain that led me to some pretty troubling realities.
Video examples
Cameron Herold: Let's...
I sold license plate protectors door to door. My dad actually made me go find someone who would sell me them at wholesale. At nine years old, I walked around in the city of Sudbury selling license-plate protectors door to door. And I remember this one customer so vividly -- I also did some other stuff with these clients, I sold newspapers,
Video examples
Kathy Hannun: How to...
As each home switches over, a new kind of utility is taking hold -- a distributed utility, made up of homes exchanging renewable energy with the ground. This new infrastructure is simple, local and inexpensive to operate, and it represents a permanent and wholesale shift away from fossil fuels. The groundwork is being laid, so to speak,
Video examples
Coffee Currency PIPE Hard...
bulletproof in prison and a jailhouse lawyer and a store man are probably the two most important things in prison in that order for the inmates with money on their account the most lucrative hustle is running an underground store from a cell similar to buying wholesale and selling
Video examples
How to seek truth in the...
And what we faced was the wholesale violation, not just of human rights, but all the way to ethnic cleansing and genocide, and that has been adjudicated in the highest war crimes court in the world. So, we know what we were seeing. Trying to tell the world what we were seeing
Video examples
Laws that choke...
people taking other people's content in wholesale and distributing it without the permission of the copyright owner. I'm talking about people taking and recreating using other people's content, using digital technologies to say things differently. Now, the importance of this
Video examples
How the NSA betrayed the...
And this kind of wholesale surveillance means that they can collect our data and keep it basically forever, keep it for extended periods of time, keep it for years, keep it for decades. And this opens up completely new kinds of risks
Video examples
Laura Schulz: The...
one of the fundamental problems of cognitive science with a single witticism. He said, "There's something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment in fact."
Video examples
What it takes to make...
to everyone who wants to create change in this world in ways that only they can do. That generation is in the streets. They are crying urgently for wholesale change against racial injustice,
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pakistani Politician
Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.
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Michael Kinsley
American Journalist
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
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William James
American Philosopher
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
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David Autor
American Economist
China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.
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Joseph Rotblat
Polish Physicist
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
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Chad Hurley
American Businessman
Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.
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James Jebbia
American Designer
For us, the reason that our quality has been high, and I feel that our pricing has been reasonable, is because we don't wholesale.
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Dayananda Saraswati
Indian Leader
The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
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Prosenjit Chatterjee
Indian Actor
I am a wholesale entertainer.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pakistani Politician
Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death.
Quote examples
Michael Kinsley
American Journalist
The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
Quote examples
William James
American Philosopher
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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Hermann Hesse
German Novelist
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Quote examples
David Autor
American Economist
China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.
Quote examples
Joseph Rotblat
Polish Physicist
Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
Quote examples
Chad Hurley
American Businessman
Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.
Quote examples
James Jebbia
American Designer
For us, the reason that our quality has been high, and I feel that our pricing has been reasonable, is because we don't wholesale.
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Dayananda Saraswati
Indian Leader
The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
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Prosenjit Chatterjee
Indian Actor
I am a wholesale entertainer.
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