wholesale

Universal Words adjective [onlybeforenoun] 1 connected with goods that are bought and sold in large quantities, especially so they can be sold again to make a profit: wholesale goods / prices compareRETAIL 2 (especially of sth bad) happening or done to a very large number of people or things: the wholesale slaughter of innocent people wholesale adverb: We buy the building materials wholesale. * These young people die wholesale from heroin overdoses.