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dealer
[ dee-ler ]
noun
- 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.
- Cards. the player distributing the cards.
- a person who behaves or acts toward another or others in a specified manner:
a plain dealer.
- Slang. a person who buys and sells drugs illegally.
- a person who buys securities for their own account and retains them until sold to another.
dealer
/ ˈdiːlə /
noun
- a person or firm engaged in commercial purchase and sale; trader
a car dealer
- cards the person who distributes the cards
- slang.a person who sells illegal drugs
Derived Forms
- ˈdealerˌship, noun
Other Words From
- pre·dealer noun
- sub·dealer noun
Word History and Origins
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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