dealer

Meaning

1. One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
2. A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
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.

Synonyms

merchant

trader

seller

salesman

vendor

tradesman

monger

shopkeeper

distributor

trafficker

bargainer

agent

broker

businessman

merchandiser

wholesaler

principal

pusher

store owner

attorney

drug dealer

pedlar

representative

retailer

stand-in

storekeeper

go-between

middleman

fixer

negotiator

operator

packer

partition

peddler

market keeper

fence

factor

supermarketeer

supermarketer

router

divisor

salesperson

scalper

divider

sharer

dispenser

smuggler

candy-man

stockist

store

mongers for sale

supplier

deliveryman

dealing

traffic

chandler

transactor

transmitter

business

allocator

arms dealer

candy man

intermediator

subpurchaser

adjudicator

dealer in arms

petty trader

fomite

influence peddler

intercessor

jobber

marketeer

mercer

hawker

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/

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.