1 connected with buying and selling goods in large quantities, especially in order to sell them again and make a profit 批发的；成批出售的: They get all their building materials wholesale. 他们的建筑材料都是成批买来的。wholesale goods/prices 批发货品；批发价 ☞Look at retail. 参看retail。

2 (usually about sth bad) very great; on a very large scale （通常指不良事物）大规模的，不加区别的: the wholesale slaughter of wildlife 大规模屠杀野生动物