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wholesale is an adverb, noun, verb and adjective meaning "at a wholesale price". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊlˌseɪl/ — HOHL-sayl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers
ignoring distinctions
“sweeping generalizations”
“wholesale destruction”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wholesale come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.