wholesale trade
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwholesaleandtrade
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wholesale
adjective
adverb
uk/ˈhəʊl.seɪl/us/ˈhoʊl.seɪl/
of or for the selling of goods in large amounts at low prices to shops and businesses, rather than the selling of goods in shops ...
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trade
noun
uk/treɪd/us/treɪd/
the activity of buying and selling, or exchanging, goods and/or services between people ...
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(Definition ofwholesaleandtradefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Tourist spending represents 90 per cent of thewholesaletradesubsector.
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The reason for this dominance of non-indigenous businesses in manufacturing andwholesaletradeis not clear.
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Thewholesaletradehas another legitimate anxiety.
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Where can you define thewholesaletrade?
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Responsibility for that is placed really upon thewholesaletrade.
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After experiencing difficulties, the government decided not to extend thewholesaletradetakeover to rice for the coming 1973/74 kharif season.
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Those states which were willing to take over thewholesaletradein rice from the 1973/74 kharif season were allowed to do so.
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Even where there have been more producers, collusion between them has been common, and where there have been many producers,wholesaletradehas often been concentrated.
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Thewholesaletradeis beginning to return as a result of the revival of retail sales.
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Then he talked about the rationalisation of butchers' shops and the rationalisation of thewholesaletrade.
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Therefore, the fears expressed by the national federation of thewholesaletradewere probably misplaced.
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These three grades are distributed in equal proportions to thewholesaletrade.
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This is not meant to deal only with thewholesaletrade, but also with retail trade.
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Thewholesaletradeis very frequently in competition with its own manufacturers.
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There is a great difference between the retail and thewholesaletrade.
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It is generally realised that thewholesaletradeis in considerable difficulties at the present time.
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The estimate was £2,100,000 from the retail andwholesaletradetogether.
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Now think of the other side, the retail andwholesaletrade.
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By so doing he is encouraging thewholesaletradeto take up cold storage.
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Middle lines were intended forwholesaletrade.
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An answer to these questions will clear away some of the difficulties of both the retail andwholesaletrade.
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Is t not a fact that the electricity undertakings compete in almost every sphere in retail andwholesaletrade?
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We are content to leave this to the good sense of local authorities and thewholesaletrade.
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Volumes dealing with results for the service and repair trades and for thewholesaletradewill follow soon afterwards.
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In regard to price there are all sorts of dodges that are being adopted, especially in thewholesaletrade.
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