WHOLESALE

Wholesale

Wholesaling, jobbing, or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. In general, it is the sale of goods to anyone other than a standard consumer. In the United Kingdom, the Cash and Carry is a term used to describe a wholesale warehouse, particularly those that are open to the general public on payment of a subscription.

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wholesale

Noun

  1. The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

Verb

  1. To sell at wholesale.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
  2. Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

Adverb

  1. In bulk or large quantity.
  2. Indiscriminately.


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