how to pronounce wholesale

/ˈhəʊl.sɛɪl/

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wholesale is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of wholesale in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… half of its been wholesale so I'd say …”

meaning of wholesale

Wholesale means the sale of goods in large quantities at a fixed price.

wholesale frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word wholesale occurs in english on average 7.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics wholesale can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that wholesale can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;