Wholesale /(?)/

Whole·sale

Wholesale

n.
  1. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail.
    Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale.

Phrases & Compounds
By wholesale
in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination.

Wholesale

a.
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.
  2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter.