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Antonyms for wholesale

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hohl-seyl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈhoʊlˌseɪl

Definition of wholesale

Origin : early 15c., "in large quantities," from whole + sale; the general sense of "extensive" is attested from 1640s.

adj all-inclusive

Example sentences :

His wholesale business has grown enormously, especially since 1860.
Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin

And this, his only article of food, he buys at wholesale, like his robes and undergarments.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

That's four million, and I should take a royalty of four shillings on wholesale orders.
Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro

She may not be at liberty to dispose of it in this wholesale manner.
Extract from : « The Universal Reciter » by Various

“Them terms of retail and wholesale is my own,” said Mr. Gubb.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

Wholesale houses, says a high authority, are "not dull, but stone dead."
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

Could you find him a place in a wholesale merchant's office?'
Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst

If they are, how shall we explain the wholesale destruction of those they hold most dear?
Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

Is this to be a wholesale attack, then, on our national courage?
Extract from : « Shoulder-Straps » by Henry Morford

What has he been doing now—taking the rats of the swamp by wholesale, I presume?
Extract from : « Darry the Life Saver » by Frank V. Webster

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