🇬🇧🇨🇳 wholesale - 批发 : English Lesson

Meaning of "wholesale" ("批发"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Wholesale is when a company sells big amounts of things to stores or other businesses, instead of selling just one or two items to regular shoppers. The store buys the goods at wholesale, then puts them on shelves and sells them to you at retail. So wholesale is like the “big box” sale for stores, and retail is the “little bag” sale for families.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The wizard ran a spell wholesale, so shops could buy 1,000 “do your homework” spells at once.

The clown got his supply of rubber noses at wholesale, which is why his closet honks whenever you open it.

At the pillow wholesale, they only sold giant bags of 100 pillows, perfect for extreme pillow fights.

The chicken started an egg wholesale, selling crates of 200 eggs to breakfast cafés for serious omelet emergencies.

The cat tried to open a sardine wholesale, but it ate all the inventory before the first customer arrived.

The small shop owner ran to the wholesale dock, carrying boxes from the wholesale truck after a wholesale mix-up. He laughed at the messy spill and brewed coffee for the tired wholesale crew who work in wholesale and had saved his stall. He hugged the last crate, grateful for the quick wholesale help.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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