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wholesale | price |

As a noun wholesale

is the sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

As an adjective wholesale

is of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.

As an adverb wholesale

is in bulk or large quantity.

As a verb wholesale

is to sell at wholesale.

As a phrase price is

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wholesale

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.
  • Synonyms

    * bulk supply

    Derived terms

    * wholesaler

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.
  • Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.
  • * The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
  • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In bulk or large quantity.
  • Indiscriminately.
  • Verb

    (wholesal)
  • To sell at wholesale.
  • price

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The cost required to gain possession of something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We can afford no more at such a price .
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
  • The cost of an action or deed.
  • Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
  • Her price is far above rubies.
  • * Keble
  • new treasures still, of countless price

    Derived terms

    * list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset price

    Verb

    (pric)
  • To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
  • (obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
  • Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
  • (obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
  • (colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
  • to price eggs