to wholesale
- verb
- /ˈhoʊlseɪl/
- >> I sell fruits and vegetables wholesale to the smaller grocers, the little ones.
- begin to wholesale
Examples
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I'm wholesaling cars to Ahmad this afternoon.
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DAVID :My plan was to sell quality bed sheets wholesale to all the retirement homes in South Florida.
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Make a hundred, and if I approve the quality, you can wholesale them to me!
Blog text (1) -
Yeah, and then they wholesale them out to car dealers and auto parts stores, right?
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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.
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So we started, you know, started wholesaling simple things, socks, T-shirts.
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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
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A business that sells goods in large amounts to shops and other businesses at low prices
- Specialized
A number that shows how prices of goods sold in large amounts change over time
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Morphology
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.