wholesale
/ˈhoʊlseɪl/noun
The business of selling goods, usually in bulk, to shops or other traders rather than directly to the public.
Example sentences
- “The shop buys its stock at wholesale and sells it at a markup.”
- “Her family has worked in wholesale for three generations, supplying grocery stores.”
The opposite of retail. As an adverb it means completely and indiscriminately: 'the plan was rejected wholesale'.