喜樂美語
  1. 1批發的；(引申)全面的

    Selling goods in large quantities, usually to shops or businesses rather than directly to individual customers — buying "wholesale" is usually much cheaper than buying "retail" (the normal shop price). It's also used more generally to mean "total" or "without exception" — wholesale changes, wholesale destruction.

core核心畫面

組成whole (complete, all of it) + sale (selling)

同家族的字

  • wholeone of the two words that make it up
  • salethe other word that makes it up

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wholesalenoun/ˈhoʊlseɪl/

  • 1

    businessThe sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

wholesaleadj/ˈhoʊlseɪl/

  • 1

    Of or relating to sale in large quantities, for resale.

  • 2

    Extensive, indiscriminate, all-encompassing; blanket.

    • The bombing resulted in wholesale destruction.
    • But beyond these cut-offs, to avoid the wholesale alteration of all mileposting and mileages—of bridges and culverts, for example—the original mileposts have remained unaltered.

wholesaleadv/ˈhoʊlseɪl/

  • 1

    In bulk or large quantity.

  • 2

    Indiscriminately.

    • It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land.

wholesaleverb/ˈhoʊlseɪl/

  • 1

    To sell at wholesale.

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