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Dealer

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a firm engaged in trading wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game wordnet
  5. 5
    A particular type of stock broker or trader.
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  1. 6
    the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for their own account wordnet
  2. 7
    The person who deals the cards in a card game.
  3. 8
    someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold wordnet
  4. 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 […]"

  5. 10
    a seller of illicit goods wordnet

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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