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DEALER
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Irregular inflected form: dealer
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A firm engaged in trading
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("dealer" is a kind of...):
business firm; firm; house (the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealer"):
car dealer (a firm that sells and buys cars)
computer dealer (a firm that sells and buys computers)
jewelry dealer; jewelry store (a firm that sells and buys jewelry)
truck dealer (a firm that sells and buys trucks)
Derivation:
deal (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)
deal (sell)
dealership (a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dealer" is a kind of...):
card player (someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games)
Derivation:
deal (distribute cards to the players in a game)
deal (give (a specific card) to a player)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
Synonyms:
dealer; principal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("dealer" is a kind of...):
financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealer"):
broker-dealer (a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal)
Derivation:
deal (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Synonyms:
bargainer; dealer; monger; trader
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("dealer" is a kind of...):
merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealer"):
stock trader (someone who buys and sells stock shares)
stamp dealer (a dealer in stamps (whose customers are stamp collectors))
slop-seller; slopseller (a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing)
seedman; seedsman (a dealer in seeds)
mercer (a dealer in textiles (especially silks))
hardwareman; ironmonger (someone who sells hardware)
horse trader (a hard bargainer)
fishmonger; fishwife (someone who sells fish)
fence (a dealer in stolen property)
draper (a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods))
cutler (a dealer in cutlery)
barrow-boy; barrow-man; costermonger (a hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow)
cheesemonger (someone who sells cheese)
bibliopole; bibliopolist (a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books))
barterer (a trader who exchanges goods and not money)
art dealer (a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation)
Derivation:
deal (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)
dealership (a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A seller of illicit goods
Example:
a dealer in stolen goods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("dealer" is a kind of...):
marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealer"):
drug dealer; drug peddler; drug trafficker; peddler; pusher (an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs)
Derivation:
deal (sell)
Context examples:
I’d have a dead dockyard contractor as a figure-head for every first-rate in the fleet, and a provision dealer for every frigate.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you are an architect, historian, a dealer in rare letters and autographs, a museum curator, or archeologist, this month will find you winning your glory and making exceptional progress.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I've been up an' down it from end to end, and had two dry seasons in those very parts, as I told you when I spoke of the war I made on the slave-dealers.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man’s goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“You claim to have one plain motive in all you do yourself. You don't suppose, I hope, that you are the only plain dealer in the world?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So he remained on exhibition until spring, when one Tim Keenan, a faro-dealer, arrived in the land.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Why he lean forward? Why his face very much quiet? Why his eyes very much bright? Why dealer warm with blood a little bit in the face? Why all men very quiet? —the man with yellow markers? the man with white markers? the man with red markers? Why nobody talk? Because very much money. Because last turn.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
‘Which dealer’s?’
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-store shops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby's, in preference to the regular dealers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
