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# wholesaler

«wholesaler» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person or business that buys goods in large amounts…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wholesaler, wholesalers)

### meaning for a pupil

A person or business that buys goods in large amounts from makers and sells them in large amounts to shops, not to the public. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In business and maths lessons: wholesalers sell cheaply in bulk; shops (retailers) buy from them and sell to people at a higher price to make profit. In maths problems: profit = shop price − wholesale price.

### examples

- The corner shop buys its sweets from a wholesaler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#x1)
- The wholesaler sells crisps in boxes of 48. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#x2)
- A retailer buys from a wholesaler and sells to customers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#x3)
- The wholesaler charged 20p a bar, and the shop sold them for 50p, a profit of 30p each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#x4)
- Farmers sell their apples to a fruit wholesaler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#x5)
- You usually need a business card to shop at a wholesaler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/#x6)

### note

Countable. Related: wholesale (adjective, adverb), retailer (the shop that sells to the public). Comes from «whole» (in bulk) + «sale», not «hole». In maths: profit per item = selling price − buying price.

### In the corpora

- [Shops buy goods in large amounts from wholesalers, firms that sell in bulk to shops, and sell them at a higher price.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/95-money-shops-work-town/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wholesaler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wholesaler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.