1 N-UNCOUNT [usually NOUN n] 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. 批发;趸售 [business]
2 ADV [ADVERB after verb] 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. 用批发方式;以批发价 [business]
SYN extensively, comprehensively, across the board, all at once
3 ADJ [ADJ n] 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. 大规模的;大批的 [emphasis]
Wholesale is also an adverb.
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