wholesale
Speech parts
1. wholesale - Noun
2. wholesale - Adjective
3. wholesale - Verb
4. wholesale - Adverb
5. wholesale - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
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.
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC-which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries-has swallowed wholesale the lies and distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, man-hating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy ‘research'.
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.