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wholesale

[hohl-seyl] / ˈhoʊlˌseɪl /


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Huo said the "main factors" for the slump were "significant declines" in activity across wholesale trade and monetary financial services, while the real-estate sector was also "below the critical point".

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Eastern, alongside advance retail and wholesale inventories for June.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

The pact represents Peacock’s largest wholesale distribution agreement to date, one that will introduce the service into millions of new homes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

By channel, wholesale sales ticked up 2.2% and direct-to-consumer sales climbed 13%.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

How could anything that called itself the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” engage in wholesale murder?

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 8, 2025

Consumers have faced sharply higher prices for goods and services this year as businesses deal with an unprecedented jump in wholesales prices.

From Seattle Times Sep. 26, 2021

To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2018

But Jeff Kightlinger, general manager of the giant Metropolitan Water District, which wholesales water to the six counties of that megalopolis, said there is enough to last the year, even without more rain.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2014

It would be to the interest of rural societies to deal with co-operative wholesales just as much as it is in the interest of urban stores to do so.

From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by Russell, George William

That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2022

“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2021

He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.

From Washington Post Jun. 28, 2015

After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.

From New York Times Oct. 15, 2011

Justice demands a careful consideration of every case; it cannot be machine-made; it cannot be wholesaled.

From The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) by Cook, Charles C.

Equipment wholesaling and transportation logistics are service industries that saw big jumps in the April data, a sign that higher oil prices are transitioning into a “second-order effect,” Helfstein says.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Jefferies also expects Sigma to make improvements in its wholesaling business.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

After the public sector, the wholesaling, retailing, hotels and restaurants sector showed the strongest regular annual growth rate.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

Born in 1852, Bruun began to collect coins as a boy in the 1850s and ’60s, years before he began to amass vast riches in the packing and wholesaling of butter.

From Seattle Times May 12, 2024

It is also true that wholesaling education can never be made a success.

From The Evolution of Dodd by Smith, William Hawley




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