Wholesale – To sell to retailers in large quantities
(Pronounced hohl-sayl)
To remember the definition of the word wholesale, use the following mnemonic:
"I know this whole lot was for sale (wholesale) but honey, this is for shops to buy, not us."
Examples of wholesale in a sentence
She's in the wholesale fruit trade.
We buy the building materials wholesale.
The shopkeeper bought his goods from a wholesaler and sold them to the public in his store.
