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US
/ˈdiɫɝ/
]
[ UK /dˈiːlɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈiːlɐ/ ]
NOUN
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a seller of illicit goods
a dealer in stolen goods - the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
- someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
- the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
- a firm engaged in trading
How To Use dealer In A Sentence
- Marry that fat son of a fat cattle dealer? She would die first!
- At the time we weren't selling textbooks, just wholesaling them out to textbook dealers.
- Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
- a drifting double-dealer
- For years, I had identified with what I saw in my community: the gang members, drug dealers, street hustlers and even the winos sitting in the alley.
- The player on the left of the dealer takes the top card from his or her stack and lays at face up on the table.
- He claimed that in recent years, as numerous dealers had left, many inspectors had additionally taken on the dealing role. Times, Sunday Times
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
- Generally the better dealers avoid such goods, but in the case of the saltcellar, the dealer hadn't been able to resist. ON A WICKED DAWN