- 1connected with goods that are bought and sold in large quantities, especially so they can be sold again to make a profit wholesale prices compare retail1
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- 2(especially of something bad) happening or done to a very large number of people or things the wholesale slaughter of innocent people
We buy the building materials wholesale. These young people die wholesale from heroin overdoses.See wholesale in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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