0 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 to customers: --
1 (especially of something bad or too extreme) complete or affecting a lot of things, people, places, etc.: --
wholesale destruction
wholesale changes
2 the price at which goods are sold to shops by the people who produce them, rather than the price which the customer usually pays in the shop: --
3 the activity of selling goods, usually in large amounts, to businesses which then sell them to the public --
5 the activity of selling goods to stores, other businesses, etc. rather than to the public: --