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

• AADAOPA
• art dealer
• double-dealer
• drug dealer
• misdealer
• plain dealer
• scrap 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 (bg) m (tǎrgovec)
• Catalan: concessionari m
• Czech: prodejce (cs) 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
• Macedonian: тр́говец m (tŕgovec)
• Maori: kaihokohoko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhandler m

• Persian: دلال‎ (fa) (dallâl), معامله‌گر‎ (mo'âmele-gar)
• 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)
• Macedonian: ди́лер m (díler)
• 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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 荷官 (héguān), 莊家／庄家 (zh) (zhuāngjiā), 莊／庄 (zh) (zhuāng)

• Czech: rozdávající m, krupiér m, bankéř (cs) m
• Danish: kortgiver c
• Dutch: gever (nl) m
• Estonian: diiler, jagaja
• Finnish: jakaja (fi)
• German: Geber (de) m
• Korean: 딜러 (dilleo)
• Macedonian: ра́здавач m (rázdavač), ди́лер m (díler)
• 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

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, on	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, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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

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, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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/dealery (deprecative)
genitive	dealera	dealerów
dative	dealerowi	dealerom
accusative	dealera	dealerów
instrumental	dealerem	dealerami
locative	dealerze	dealerach
vocative	dealerze	dealerzy

Derived terms

adjective

• dealerski

 

noun

• dealerstwo

 

Further reading

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

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

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdileɾ/ [ˈd̪i.leɾ]
• Rhymes: -ileɾ

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.