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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dealer has 5 senses
- dealer(n = noun.person) bargainer, monger, trader - someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold; Array has particulars: art dealer, barterer, bibliopole, bibliopolist, cheesemonger, barrow-boy, barrow-man, costermonger, cutler, draper, fence, fishmonger, fishwife, horse trader, hardwareman, ironmonger, mercer, seedman, seedsman, slop-seller, slopseller, stamp dealer, stock trader
- dealer(n = noun.group) Array - a firm engaged in trading; Array is a kind of business firm, firm, house
- dealer(n = noun.person) Array - a seller of illicit goods; "a dealer in stolen goods" has particulars: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher
- dealer(n = noun.person) principal - the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account; Array has particulars: broker-dealer
- dealer(n = noun.person) Array - the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game; Array is a kind of card player
is a kind of merchandiser, merchant
Derived forms verb deal6, noun dealership1
has particulars: car dealer, computer dealer, jewelry dealer, jewelry store, truck dealer
Derived forms verb deal6, verb deal13, noun dealership1
is a kind of marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor
Derived form verb deal13
is a kind of financier, moneyman
Derived form verb deal6
Derived forms verb deal9, verb deal12
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dealer, n.
1 a person or business dealing in (esp. retail) goods (contact your dealer; car-dealer; a dealer in tobacco).
2 the player dealing at cards.
3 a jobber on the Stock Exchange.
1 a person or business dealing in (esp. retail) goods (contact your dealer; car-dealer; a dealer in tobacco).
2 the player dealing at cards.
3 a jobber on the Stock Exchange.
Usage
In the UK from Oct. 1986 the name has been merged with broker (see BROKER 2, JOBBER 1).
Derivative
dealership n. (in sense 1).
THESAURUS
dealer
Mafioso, Wall Streeter, agent, black marketeer, bond crowd, bootlegger, broker, businessman, businesswoman, chandler, curb broker, distributor, drug pusher, floor broker, floor trader, floorman, gray marketeer, importer, jobber, marketer, merchandiser, merchant, middleman, monger, moonshiner, odd-lot dealer, pit man, pusher, racketeer, registered representative, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, salesman, sharebroker, shopkeeper, specialist, stock dealer, stock-exchange broker, stockbroker, stockjobber, storekeeper, supplier, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, two-dollar broker, vendor, wholesalerROGET THESAURUS
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Merchant
N merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman, changer, regrater, shopkeeper, shopman, tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk, retailer, chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler, pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus, sutler, vivandiere, costerman, costermonger, tallyman, camelot, faker, vintner, money broker, money changer, money lender, cambist, usurer, moneyer, banker, jobber, broker, buyer, seller, bear, bull, concern, firm.
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