wholesale

English

Etymology

From whole +‎ sale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊlseɪl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -oʊlseɪl

Noun

wholesale (countable and uncountable, plural wholesales)

1. (business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

   Synonym: bulk supply

Antonyms

• retail

Derived terms

• wholesaler

Translations

sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants

• Arabic: إِجْمَالِيّ (ʔijmāliyy), بِالْجُمْلَةِ (bi-l-jumlati), بَيْع بِالْجُمْلَةِ (bayʕ bi-l-jumlati)
• Assamese: পাইকাৰী (paikari)
• Bulgarian: търгови́я на е́дро f (tǎrgovíja na édro)
• Catalan: a l'engròs (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 批發 / 批发 (zh) (pīfā)

• Czech: velkoobchod m
• Danish: engroshandel c, en groshandel c, engrosvirksomhed c, en grosvirksomhed c
• Dutch: groothandel (nl) m
• Estonian: hulgimüük
• Finnish: tukkukauppa (fi)
• French: vente en gros f
• German: Großhandel (de) m
• Greek: χονδρική (el) f (chondrikí)
• Hindi: थोक (hi) m (thok)
• Hungarian: nagykereskedelem (hu)
• Icelandic: heildsala (is) f, heildverslun f
• Indonesian: borong (id)
• Irish: mórdhíol m
• Italian: ingrosso (it), all'ingrosso (it)
• Japanese: 卸売 (ja) (おろしうり, oroshiuri)
• Korean: 도매(都賣) (domae)
• Maori: hokorau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: engroshandel m

• Persian: عمده‌فروشی ('omde-foruši)
• Polish: hurt (pl) m
• Portuguese: atacado (pt) m
• Romanian: en gros
• Russian: опто́вая торго́вля f (optóvaja torgóvlja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: велепро̀даја f

  Roman: velepròdaja (sh) f

• Slovak: veľkoobchod m
• Spanish: venta al por mayor f, mayoreo (es) m
• Swedish: partihandel (sv) c, grossistverksamhet c, grosshandel (sv) c
• Tagalog: pakyaw, pamamakyaw
• Turkish: toptancılık (tr)
• Vietnamese: bán sỉ (vi)
• Welsh: cyfanwerth m

Further reading

• wholesale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Adjective

wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)

1. Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
2. (figurative) Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

   The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.

   • 1946 July and August, “Mileposts and their Peculiarities”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:

     But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.

   • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:

     By wholesale omission of connections and by the use of a microscopic scale of photographic reproduction which makes some of the most important tables difficult to read, the size has been cut down from last winter's 580 to 520 pages only.

   • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:

     With financial losses emerging in 1957, the BTC abandoned the diesel pilot scheme in favour of wholesale orders for untried designs.

Translations

of or relating to sale in bulk or large quantity

• Belarusian: апто́вы (aptóvy), гуртавы́ (hurtavý), агу́льны (be) (ahúlʹny)
• Bulgarian: на е́дро (na édro)
• Catalan: a l'engròs (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Cornish: kowlwerth
• Czech: velkoobchodní
• Danish: engros (da), en gros (da)
• Dutch: grootschalig (nl)
• Finnish: tukku- (fi)
• French: en gros (fr)
• Georgian: საბითუმო (sabitumo)
• German: Großhandels- (de)
• Greek: χονδρικός (el) (chondrikós)
• Hungarian: nagybani (hu)
• Italian: all'ingrosso (it)
• Latin: magnārius
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: en gros

• Polish: hurtowy (pl)
• Portuguese: atacado (pt)
• Russian: опто́вый (ru) (optóvyj)
• Ukrainian: опто́вий (optóvyj), гуртови́й (hurtovýj), огу́льний (ohúlʹnyj)
• Welsh: cyfanwerthol

Adverb

wholesale (comparative more wholesale, superlative most wholesale)

1. In bulk or large quantity.
2. (figurative) Indiscriminately.

Translations

in bulk or large quantity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: engros (da), en gros (da)
• Finnish: tukuttain
• French: en gros (fr)
• Georgian: ბითუმად (bitumad)
• Greek: χονδρικά (el) (chondriká)
• Hungarian: nagyban (hu)
• Latin: acervatim
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: en gros

• Polish: hurtowo
• Russian: о́птом (ru) (óptom)
• Spanish: por mayor, por junto, al por mayor (es)
• Welsh: ar gyfanwerth

Verb

wholesale (third-person singular simple present wholesales, present participle wholesaling, simple past and past participle wholesaled)

1. To sell at wholesale.

Translations

sell in bulk

• Cornish: kowlwertha