Dealer
['diːlə] or ['dilɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a firm engaged in trading.
(noun.) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game.
(noun.) a seller of illicit goods; 'a dealer in stolen goods'.
Edited by Annabel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
(n.) One who distributes cards to the players.
Editor: Matt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Trader, trafficker.[2]. Distributor.
Checked by Desmond
Examples
- A drive of an hour brought us to the picture-dealer's establishment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The dealer in dyes and wigs was a shrewd and canny man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They trailed off to the dealer, the handsome but abject young fellow hanging a little aside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All the freedom which the trade of the inland corn dealer has ever yet enjoyed was bestowed upon it by this statute. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- My man, don't you be afraid, said the dealer in red, suddenly becoming gentle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Under this cloak he worked, and soon found that his new occupation was vastly more interesting than that of dealer in wigs had been. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Wigs were the fashion, and Arkwright had an excellent process, and was an energetic and resourceful dealer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It would support the trade of the farmer, in the same manner as the trade of the wholesale dealer supports that of the manufacturer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Horse-dealer's estimate, so much. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They found a tree near by in a corner, and a blacksmith's forge, and a timber yard, and a dealer's in old iron. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His father soon decided that his son’s bent did not lie in the direction of a dealer in cloths, and, casting about for a scientific career, chose that of medicine for Galileo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It neither favours the great, nor oppresses the smaller dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The interest of the inland dealer, however, it has already been shown, can never be opposite to that of the great body of the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A dealer in old books had met with them, and knowing me by name, having bought books of him, he brought them to me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There were dealers to suit every class and condition of people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The circulation between the dealers, as it is carried on by wholesale, requires generally a pretty large sum for every particular transaction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If the tax had been considerable, it would have oppressed the small, and forced almost the whole retail trade into the hands of the great dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-store shops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby's, in preference to the regular dealers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To widen the market, and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Where no bank notes are circulated under ?10 value, as in London, paper money confines itself very much to the circulation between the dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Unscrupulous jobbers and dealers have been known to soak the whole beans in spirits, practically stealing all their flavor, and then by drying them place them on the market. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Why should the dealers in one sort of goods, it seems to have been thought, be more favoured than those in another? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Even milk is not exempt, but is doctored to prevent souring, the preservative most generally used by milk dealers being formaldehyde. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The profits to manufacturers and dealers on these household necessities are very large, and the prudent consumer will take advantage of the directions here given. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- If there be any man of letters, art, or science among these little dealers, how noble in him to support the feeble sisters on such majestic crutches! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three of them are receipted hay-dealers' accounts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary over-trading becomes a general error, both among great and small dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The dealers have no respite from the continual visits and examination of the excise officers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The competition of the different dealers obliges them all to accept of this price, but does not oblige them to accept of less. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Stanton