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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.

By wholesale

in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination.

Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it

by wholesale

I. Watts.

Adj.

Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers;

as, a

wholesale

merchant; the

wholesale

price

Extensive and indiscriminate;

as,

wholesale

slaughter

“A time for wholesale trust.”

Mrs. Humphry Ward.

Noun.

[whole and sale.]

Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity; as distinguished from retail. Some traders sell either by wholesale or retail.

The whole mass.

Some from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale.

Adj.

[supra.]

Buying and selling by the piece or quantity; as a wholesale merchant or dealer.

Pertaining to the trade by the piece or quantity; as the wholesale price.