dealer
UK/ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/
dealer noun: one who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
Noun
dealer (plural dealers)
- 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!
- 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 dealing1967, Leonard Cohen, “The Stranger Song”, in Songs of Leonard Cohen
- Synonyms:
- peddler
- It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
- A particular type of stock broker or trader.
- The person who deals the cards in a card game.
- 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 […]2018, Kate Stanley, Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson, page 90
dealer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
dealer in Hindi
- dealer, broker, agent; pykar
- पैकार paikār
dealer in Tamil
- வணிகர், விற்குநர், விற்பவர், வர்த்தகர், வியாபாரி
dealer in Urdu
- بیوپاری
dealer in Bengali
- one who deals in things, e.g. automobiles
- কারবারী karbari
More languagesFewer languages
- dealer in Telugu
- డీలర్
- dealer in Malayalam
- ഇടപാടുകാരൻ, ക്രയവിക്രയം ചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, ഒരു വ്യാപാരി
- dealer in Kannada
- ಹರದ, ಹಂಚುವವ, ವಿತರಕ, ವ್ಯಾಪಾರಿ
- dealer in Punjabi
- ਡੀਲਰ
- dealer in Nepali
- डिलर
- dealer in Arabic
- تَاجِر tājir, تَاجِرَة tājira
- dealer in Thai
- ผู้ค้า pûu-káa, เจ้ามือ jâo-mʉʉ
Synonyms of dealer
Forms of dealer
| plural | dealers |
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Origin of dealer
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.
Words formed from dealer
- AADAOPA
- arms dealer
- art dealer
- bookdealer
- broker-dealer
- coaldealer
- dealer board
- dealerdom
- dealer's choice
- dealership
- double-dealer
- drug-dealer
- drug dealer
- horsedealer
- interdealer
- macaroni dealer
- megadealer
- misdealer
- newsdealer
- nondealer
- plain dealer
- scrap dealer
- sharedealer
- slavedealer
- subdealer
- wheeler-dealer
Phrases with dealer
Words that rhyme with dealer
Questions about dealer
- What does dealer mean?
- Dealer means one who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
- What is dealer in Hindi?
- Dealer in Hindi is पैकार (paikār). See Dealer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dealer?
- Dealer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dealer?
- Dealer is pronounced /ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dealer?
- The plural of dealer is dealers.
Words near dealer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dealer (page history and authors); पैकार (Hindi) (page history and authors); dealer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dealer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dealer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dealer (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dealer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dealer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dealer (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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