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plain dealer

plain dealer noun: someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly and honestly.

Noun

plain dealer (plural plain dealers)

  1. Someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly and honestly.
    • Ant. Why thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.
      S. Dro. The plainer dealer, the sooner lost; yet he looseth it in a kind of iollitie.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • She as often acted the Plain-Dealer with him, and fairly told him [...] that, in Truth, she had nothign but a very Small Spot to which she had any Hereditary Right [...].1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section VI

Forms of plain dealer

pluralplain dealers

Origin of plain dealer

From plain + dealer, after plain dealing.

Questions about plain dealer

What does plain dealer mean?
Plain dealer means someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly and honestly.
What part of speech is plain dealer?
Plain dealer is a noun.
What is the plural of plain dealer?
The plural of plain dealer is plain dealers.

Words near plain dealer in the dictionary

  1. plain chocolate
  2. plain chocolates
  3. plain clothes
  4. plain cook
  5. plain cooks
  6. plain dealer
  7. plain dealers
  8. plain dealing
  9. plain dealings
  10. plain dress
  11. plain Dunstable

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