dealer
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.
Origin of dealer
1Other words from dealer
- pre·deal·er, noun
- sub·deal·er, noun
- Compare stockbroker.
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How to use dealer in a sentence
Many of them are convicted drug dealers and other hardened criminals.
An American Marine in Iran’s Prisons Goes on Hunger Strike | IranWire | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUntil scholars and collectors stop buying, antiquities dealers have no incentive to stop selling.
Dismembering History: The Shady Online Trade in Ancient Texts | Candida Moss | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlongside Turkish antiquities dealers there are those looking to sell family heirlooms.
Dismembering History: The Shady Online Trade in Ancient Texts | Candida Moss | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe added: “A lot of drug dealers had a bit of an influence with officers in the Miami Police Department.”
Did Pablo Escobar Frame a Millionaire for Murdering Banana-Shipping Money Launderers? | Jacqui Goddard | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut was my grandfather really more appalled by this than he was by the crimes of the collaborationist art dealers?
My Grandfather's War: Recovering the Art the Nazis Stole | Anne Sinclair | October 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Grain merchants and vegetable dealers jostled each other in the streets themselves.
Our Little Korean Cousin | H. Lee M. PikeThe graziers and cattle-dealers were forthwith to find "their occupations gone."
You are an expert appraiser of art, and you take good fees from various dealers.
Then you went to the dealers and told them that you had several sensational new artists whose work would bring high prices.
The artists made dough and the dealers made dough and the customers thought they were getting high class stuff.
British Dictionary definitions for dealer
/ (ˈdiːlə) /
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 of dealer
- dealership, noun
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