'By wholesale' definitions:
Definition of 'By wholesale'
From: GCIDE
- Wholesale \Whole"sale`\, n. Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity, as distinguished from retail. [1913 Webster]
- By wholesale, in the mass; in large quantities; without distinction or discrimination. [1913 Webster]
- Some, from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]