[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]批发；趸售Wholesale is the activity of buying and selling goods in large quantities and therefore at cheaper prices, usually to shopkeepers who then sell them to the public.
[usu N n]
[BUSINESS 商]
Warehouse clubs allow members to buy goods at wholesale prices...
仓储式会员店允许会员以批发价购买商品。
I am in the wholesale trade.
我做批发生意。
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[ADV 副词]用批发方式；以批发价 If something is sold wholesale, it is sold in large quantities and at cheaper prices, usually to shopkeepers.
[ADV after v]
[BUSINESS 商]
The fabrics are sold wholesale to retailers, fashion houses, and other manufacturers.
这些纺织品被批发给零售商、时装店和其他制造商。
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[ADJ 形容词]大规模的；大批的 You use wholesale to describe the destruction, removal, or changing of something when it affects a very large number of things or people.
[ADJ n]
[ADV after v]
[emphasis]
They are only doing what is necessary to prevent wholesale destruction of vegetation...
他们只是在采取必要措施避免大规模的植被破坏。
It was wholesale slaughter of women and children.
那是对妇女和儿童的大规模屠杀。
Wholesale is also an adverb.
...a government which kills wholesale and guerrillas who kill selectively.
实行大规模杀戮的政府和有选择地杀人的游击队
Oxford
whole·sale/ˈhəʊlseɪl; NAmEˈhoʊlseɪl/adjective[only before noun ]1connected with goods that are bought and sold in large quantities, especially so they can be sold again to make a profit 批发的；趸售的◆wholesale prices批发价格☞compare
retail
1n.2(especially of sth bad 尤指负面的事物)happening or done to a very large number of people or things 大规模的◆the wholesale slaughter of innocent people对无辜人民的大屠杀▶whole·saleadverb◆We buy the building materials wholesale.我们批量购买建筑材料。◆These young people die wholesale from heroin overdoses.这些年轻人因过量吸海洛因大批死亡。wholesalewholesaleswholesaledwholesalingwhole·sale/ˈhəʊlseɪl; NAmEˈhoʊlseɪl/
the business of selling goods in large quantities at low prices to other businesses, rather than to the general public → retail
wholesale1 noun
wholesale2 adjective
wholesalewholesale2 ●○○ adjective
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1relating to the business of selling goods in large quantities at low prices to other businesses, rather than to the general public → retail: wholesale prices2[usually before noun] affecting almost everything or everyone, and often done without any concern for the results: the capture and wholesale destruction of a city This company will not be successful until there are wholesale changes.—wholesale adverb: I can get it for you wholesale.
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