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to wholesale

to wholesale

3 3.7
To sell goods in large amounts to shops or other businesses
  • verb
  • /ˈhoʊlseɪl/
translation icon : vender al por mayor
  • >> I sell fruits and vegetables wholesale to the smaller grocers, the little ones.
  • begin to wholesale

Examples

  • I'm wholesaling cars to Ahmad this afternoon.

  • DAVID :My plan was to sell quality bed sheets wholesale to all the retirement homes in South Florida.

  • Make a hundred, and if I approve the quality, you can wholesale them to me!

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  • Yeah, and then they wholesale them out to car dealers and auto parts stores, right?

  • We decided on vaporizers because we already wholesale in the same industry.

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  • We wholesale all kinds of cheap NFL jerseys that are of high quality.

    Blog text (3)
  • So we started, you know, started wholesaling simple things, socks, T-shirts.

  • You must seek to get your cupcake liners wholesale from exactly the same resources that bakeries use.

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  • Grapes are sold wholesale to wineries in Sonoma and Napa Valley, California.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The store decided to wholesale its winter clothing to other retailers at a discounted rate.

Antonyms

14 2.9

Sell goods to the public in small amounts for people to use

Phrasal Verbs

To buy many goods at a lower price to sell them

Compounds

A place where shop owners buy goods in large amounts to sell

The price charged when shops buy goods in large amounts

A business that sells goods in large amounts to shops and other businesses at low prices

wholesale price index
  • Specialized
3.9

A number that shows how prices of goods sold in large amounts change over time

How Large

to wholesale
3 3.7
to retail
14 2.9

Surface Forms

wholesale infinitive
wholesaled past
wholesaled past participle
wholesaling present participle
wholesales third person singular

Morphology

wholesale = wholesale (semi-transparent) = whole + sale

This verb is a straightforward conversion from the noun 'wholesale', which already expresses selling in bulk.

Etymology

The verb wholesale comes from the same parts whole ('entire') and sale ('selling'), so to wholesale something is to sell large amounts of it at once. That is why it usually means selling in bulk to shops rather than to individual customers.