Dealer
noun ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
"That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!"
- 2 a firm engaged in trading wordnet
- 3 A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
"It's true that all the men you knew were dealers Who said they were through with dealing"
- 4 the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game wordnet
- 5 A particular type of stock broker or trader.
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- 6 the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account wordnet
- 7 The person who deals the cards in a card game.
- 8 someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold wordnet
- 9 One who deals or metes out anything.
"Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]"
- 10 a seller of illicit goods wordnet
Example
More examples"The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence."
Etymology
From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.
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