wholesale house
- noun
- /ˈhoʊlseɪl haʊs/
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- Many small businesses rely on a wholesale house to purchase inventory at lower prices.
Examples
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The retailer ordered a large shipment from a wholesale house to stock up for the upcoming sales season.
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The last time I worked... ...I modeled bathing suits for a wholesale house.
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I discovered a wholesale house that sells organic products in bulk, which is perfect for our store.
Synonyms
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3.5
A company that supplies products to shops and businesses
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A person or company that buys goods in large amounts from makers and sells them to shops
A person who sells goods in large amounts to shops
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'wholesale' (sale in large quantities to retailers) combined with 'house' (a firm or company) yields a company that sells goods wholesale. This noun-noun compound follows regular English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound wholesale house comes from the simple idea of a wholesale meaning 'selling in large quantities' and a house meaning 'a place where goods are kept and sold'. That's why it means a business that sells items in 'large quantities' to other shops or businesses, not to the general public.