noun
    
    [noncount] :the business of selling things in large amounts to other businesses rather than to individual customers - compare retail
    
    adjective
    
    relating to the business of selling things in large amounts to other businesses rather than to individual customers
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    affecting large numbers of people or things
    
    
    
    verb
    
    -sales; -saled; -saling
    
    [+ obj] :to sell (things) to other businesses rather than to individual customers
    
    
    
    [no obj] :to be sold to other businesses for a specified price - usually + at or for