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dealer (dē′lər)

noun

  1. a person who deals; specif.,
    1. one who distributes cards in a card game
    2. a buyer and seller; person engaged in trading a dealer in furs
    3. ☆ Slang one who sells illegal drugs
  2. a person who acts in a specified way a plain dealer

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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business dealer definition - business

finance dealer definition - finance

dealer Synonyms

dealer

n.

  1. One engaged in buying or selling

    trader, wholesaler, trafficker; see businessperson, merchant, seller.

  2. One who deals cards

    banker, card player, croupier, shuffler, dispenser, divider, the house, pit man*, pit boss*, mechanic*; see also gambler.


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dealer Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • authorize: Like the Stinger, you need to have the battery changed by an authorized dealer.

Adjective modifier

  • franchised: During 1993 a network of franchised dealers is being set up.

Modifies a noun

  • locator: To find your nearest dealer, please use our dealer locator.

Noun used with modifier

  • drug: They will tell you about how the drug dealers openly gather around the school gates.
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dealer quotes

A third-rate political wheel-horse, with the face of a moving-picture actor, the intelligence of a respectable agricultural implement dealer, and the imagination of a lodge joiner†a benign blanköa decent, harmless, laborious, hollow-headed mediocrity.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

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