dealer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: deal=er
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

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.

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, wholesaler

ROGET THESAURUS

dealer

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.