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wholetail en · NOUN · etymology 1

Blend of wholesale + retail.

(uncountable) The sale of products to end user at wholesale prices.
- Sorry, Willy Loman, but the Internet's disintermediation is squeezing it all down to wholetail. 1999 November 18, “Believe Your Eyes, The New Economy Is Real”, in Wall Street Journal Online:
- ABC leverages the MD's web catalog for all 10000 items in their cash-n-carry, "wholetail" store just as Grainger and REI have done. 2008, Sanitary Supply Wholesaling Association, Understanding Jan-San Redistribution, page 23:
- It has established many branches of retail and wholetail in Eastern China. 2003 July 23, “Sanjiu Group Sets Up New Branch in Shanghai”, in AsiaInfo Services:

From whole + tail.

An entire tail of seafood.
- a 5oz rump steak and golden deep-fried wholetails of scampi, served with tartare sauce

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