dealer

See also: Dealer

English

Etymology

From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, equivalent to deal +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ)

Noun

dealer (plural dealers)

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

   Synonyms: salesman, peddler

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

2. A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.

   Synonym: peddler

   • 1967, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “The Stranger Song”, in Songs of Leonard Cohen:

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

3. A particular type of stock broker or trader.
4. The person who deals the cards in a card game.
5. One who deals or metes out anything.
   • 2018, Kate Stanley, Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson (page 90)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• AADAOPA
• art dealer
• double-dealer
• drug dealer

• misdealer
• plain dealer
• wheeler-dealer

Translations

one who deals in things, e.g. automobiles

• Arabic: تَاجِر‎ m (tājir), تَاجِرَة‎ f (tājira)
• Azerbaijani: alverçi, ticarətçi, tacir, mal satan
• Bengali: কারবারী (karbari)
• Bulgarian: търговец m (tǎrgovec)
• Catalan: concessionari m
• Czech: prodejce m, obchodník (cs) m, zprostředkovatel m
• Danish: forhandler (da) c
• Dutch: dealer (nl) m
• Finnish: jälleenmyyjä (fi)
• German: Händler (de) m
• Italian: distributore (it) m, rivenditore (it), rappresentante (it)
• Japanese: 親 (ja) (oya)

• Korean: 딜러 (dilleo), 영맨 (yeongmaen), 상인 (ko) (sang'in)
• Latin: mangō (la) m
• Maori: kaihokohoko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhandler m

• Persian: دلال‎ (fa) (dallâl), معامله‌گر‎ (moâmelegar)
• Polish: diler (pl) m, dilerka (pl) f, dealer (pl) m, dealerka f
• Portuguese: negociante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: dealer (ro) m, vânzător (ro) m
• Russian: ди́лер (ru) m (díler), торго́вец (ru) m (torgóvec)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèiligear m
• Spanish: concesionario (es) m

drug dealer — see drug dealer

a particular type of stock broker or trader

• Bulgarian: дилър m (dilǎr)
• Danish: børshandler c, fondshandler c
• Estonian: maakler, diiler
• Italian: piazzista (it)

• Korean: 딜러 (dilleo)
• Romanian: dealer (ro) m
• Russian: ди́лер (ru) m (díler), ма́клер (ru) m (mákler)

the person who deals the cards in a card game

• Bulgarian: раздавач m (razdavač)
• Catalan: croupier m
• Czech: rozdávající m, krupiér m, bankéř (cs) m
• Danish: kortgiver c
• Dutch: gever (nl) m
• Estonian: diiler, jagaja
• Finnish: jakaja (fi)

• German: Geber m
• Korean: 딜러 (dilleo)
• Maori: kaiwhiuwhiu
• Polish: rozdający m, rozdająca f
• Portuguese: distribuidor m
• Romanian: dealer (ro) m
• Russian: сдаю́щий (ru) m (sdajúščij), раздаю́щий (ru) m (razdajúščij)
• Spanish: crupier m

Anagrams

• Leader, leader, leared, red ale, redeal, relade, relead

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English deal, suffixed with -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.le/

Verb

dealer

1. (slang) to deal (drugs)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dealer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dealer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dealant /di.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dealé /di.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	deale /dil/	deales /dil/	deale /dil/	dealons /di.lɔ̃/	dealez /di.le/	dealent /dil/
	imperfect	dealais /di.lɛ/	dealais /di.lɛ/	dealait /di.lɛ/	dealions /di.ljɔ̃/	dealiez /di.lje/	dealaient /di.lɛ/
	past historic2	dealai /di.le/	dealas /di.la/	deala /di.la/	dealâmes /di.lam/	dealâtes /di.lat/	dealèrent /di.lɛʁ/
	future	dealerai /dil.ʁe/	dealeras /dil.ʁa/	dealera /dil.ʁa/	dealerons /dil.ʁɔ̃/	dealerez /dil.ʁe/	dealeront /dil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dealerais /dil.ʁɛ/	dealerais /dil.ʁɛ/	dealerait /dil.ʁɛ/	dealerions /di.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	dealeriez /di.lə.ʁje/	dealeraient /dil.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	deale /dil/	deales /dil/	deale /dil/	dealions /di.ljɔ̃/	dealiez /di.lje/	dealent /dil/
	imperfect2	dealasse /di.las/	dealasses /di.las/	dealât /di.la/	dealassions /di.la.sjɔ̃/	dealassiez /di.la.sje/	dealassent /di.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	deale /dil/	—	dealons /di.lɔ̃/	dealez /di.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• dealeur

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dealer.

Alternative forms

• dealeur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.lœʁ/

Noun

dealer m (plural dealers, feminine dealeuse)

1. (slang) drug dealer

Anagrams

• leader

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Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer, from Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere. Doublet of diler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̪eˈalər]
• Hyphenation: dé‧a‧lêr

Noun

dealer (first-person possessive dealerku, second-person possessive dealermu, third-person possessive dealernya)

1. dealer:
   1. distributor

      Synonyms: agen, bandar, distributor, pemasok, penyalur, penyuplai, tauke, pengedar

   2. drug dealer

Further reading

• “dealer” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.lɛr/
• Rhymes: -ilɛr
• Syllabification: dea‧ler

Noun

dealer m pers (feminine dealerka)

1. Alternative spelling of diler.

Declension

Declension of dealer

	singular	plural
nominative	dealer	dealerzy
genitive	dealera	dealerów
dative	dealerowi	dealerom
accusative	dealera	dealerów
instrumental	dealerem	dealerami
locative	dealerze	dealerach
vocative	dealerze	dealerzy

Derived terms

noun

• dealerstwo

 

adjective

• dealerski

 

Further reading

• dealer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dealer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

Noun

dealer m (plural dealeri)

1. dealer

Declension

Declension of dealer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) dealer	dealerul	(niște) dealeri	dealerii
genitive/dative	(unui) dealer	dealerului	(unor) dealeri	dealerilor
vocative	dealerule		dealerilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdileɾ/, [ˈd̪i.leɾ]

Noun

dealer m (plural dealers)

1. dealer

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.