Word Study
dealer
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
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.For further exploring for "dealer" in Webster Dictionary Online