dealer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a seller of illicit goods

   a dealer in stolen goods

2. 2
   noun

   One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.

   That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!

3. 3
   noun

   A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.

   It's true that all the men you knew were dealers Who said they were through with dealing

4. 4
   noun

   One who deals or metes out anything.

   Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]

5. 5
   noun

   a firm engaged in trading

6. 6
   noun

   the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game

7. 7
   noun

   the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange

8. 8
   noun

   someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

Etymology

From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.