wholesale market
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- noun
- /ˈhoʊlseɪl ˈmɑrkɪt/
:
mercado mayorista
- Many retailers depend on the wholesale market to buy large quantities of goods at lower prices.
- retail and wholesale market
Examples
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On the wholesale market, anyone (the generator) can sell to anyone, usually the highest bidder.
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Increasingly, wholesale markets are thwarted by the inability of the aging US power delivery system to support transactions.
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Prices rose rapidly in the wholesale market.
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There is still no wholesale market for raw and industrial materials, machinery, or means of production.
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In the meantime, prices on the wholesale markets all around the West began to rise to unprecedented levels.
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Many argue that this whole phenomenon would not have come about if the wholesale market had been more balanced and prices had been lower.
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Three sites ranked agriculture and wholesale markets as the largest purchasers, while the nursery and retail market were each mentioned by one operator.
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For instance, in the Tehran wholesale market, there is a sixfold increase in prices from Pakistan's border areas.
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Not only was this the site of the main fruit and vegetable wholesale market, it was the district from which master gardeners would obtain seeds, gardening tools, and supplies.
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California's market design greatly magnified the problem by disconnecting the retail and wholesale markets for electricity and by requiring the investor-owned utilities to buy their power on a spot market.
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Synonyms
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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
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A person or company that buys large amounts of goods and sells them to shops
A business that sells goods in large amounts to shops and other businesses at low prices
A person who sells goods in large amounts to shops
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'wholesale' denotes selling in large quantities (to retailers) and 'market' denotes a place where goods are sold, so their combination transparently yields 'a market for bulk/wholesale goods'. This noun+modifier pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Wholesale market comes from the idea of wholesale—selling goods 'in large amounts'—and a market where buyers come to pick many boxes at once. Picture shop owners filling their trucks with crates in a big hall, which is why the phrase means a market that sells to shops rather than to 'customers'.