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dealer

[ dee-ler ]

noun

  1. 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.

  2. Cards. the player distributing the cards.
  3. a person who behaves or acts toward another or others in a specified manner:

    a plain dealer.

  4. Slang. a person who buys and sells drugs illegally.
  5. a person who buys securities for their own account and retains them until sold to another.


dealer

/ ˈ徱ːə /

noun

  1. a person or firm engaged in commercial purchase and sale; trader

    a car dealer

  2. cards the person who distributes the cards
  3. slang.
    a person who sells illegal drugs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ𲹱ˌ󾱱, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·𲹱İ noun
  • ܲ·𲹱İ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of dealer1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English delere, Old English ǣ. See deal 1, -er 1
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Upon moving to the U.S. in 2007, they found that roles for Black men in film and TV often were limited to drug dealers and criminals, slaves and servants.

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Even their name is a reference to the IRA's chosen method of punishment for alleged drug dealers during the Troubles.

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Last September the UN's world heritage organisation, Unesco, warned of a "threat to culture" and urged art dealers not to import or export artefacts smuggled out of Sudan.

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Louis Ahearne told jurors he believed he was there to commit a burglary or robbery of a drug dealer's house.

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Released today, it's a free-associating rampage through a messy night out, that ends with epiphany in a drug dealer's apartment.

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