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View synonyms for dealer

dealer

[ dee-ler ]

noun

  1. a person who buys and sells articles without altering their condition; trader or merchant, especially a wholesaler:

    I got a dealer's discount on this coat.

  2. Cards. the player distributing the cards.
  3. a person who behaves or acts toward another or others in a specified manner:

    a plain dealer.

  4. Slang. a person who buys and sells drugs illegally.
  5. a person who buys securities for their own account and retains them until sold to another.


dealer

/ ˈdiːlə /

noun

  1. a person or firm engaged in commercial purchase and sale; trader

    a car dealer

  2. cards the person who distributes the cards
  3. slang.
    a person who sells illegal drugs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈdealerˌship, noun
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Other Words From

  • pre·dealer noun
  • sub·dealer noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dealer1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English delere, Old English dǣlere. See deal 1, -er 1
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Example Sentences

A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

Then he was returned to the same unit to face his debts; the drug dealer asked for this favor and got it.

A report by the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes balloons being released into the night sky.

Her father, a diamond dealer, moved the family from Tel-Aviv to New York when Kalman was four.

This was to Serge Sorokko, the art dealer, with whom she moved to San Francisco, where he has a gallery on Geary.

With childlike confidence he follows the advice of some more or less honest dealer.

It is difficult to make, and should be purchased ready prepared from a reliable dealer.

A pupil had loaned money to a horse-dealer who lived at No. 715 of a certain street.

In Havana, were a man to ask for a Flor del Fumar, the dealer would ask him what size he wanted.

Amongst our supporters we had some excellent witnesses, one, a well-known cattle dealer, named Martin Ryan.

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