Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that is engaged in buying and selling: a used-car dealer; a drug dealer.
- n. Games The one who distributes cards.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who deals; one who has to do or has concern with others; specifically, a trader; one whose business is to buy and sell, as a merchant, shopkeeper, or broker: as, a dealer in general merchandise or in stocks; a picture-dealer. In law, a dealer is one who buys and sells the same articles in the same condition: thus, a butcher is not a dealer, because he buys animals whole, and sells them in a different state.
- n. In card-playing, the player who distributes the cards.
- n. In banking games, such as faro, the person who holds the cards which the players bet upon.
Wiktionary
- n. One who deals things, especially automobiles; a middleman.
- n. One who peddles illicit drugs, especially to teenagers.
- n. A particular type of stock broker or trader.
- n. The person who deals the cards in a card game.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant
- n. One who distributes cards to the players.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a firm engaged in trading
- n. a seller of illicit goods
- n. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
- n. the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
- n. someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
Examples
“Not everyone approved of the designs, however, and Philadelphia coin dealer Samuel H. Chapman was one of the most vigorous in opposition.”
“Fort Worth coin dealer B. Max Mehl, a tireless promoter of the coin hobby throughout the first half of the 20th century, included the sale in his May 1950 Golden Jubilee Sale, featuring the Jerome Kern Collection and other properties.”
CLASSIC RARITIES: Adams-Carter 1804 Class III Silver Dollar : Coin Collecting News
“A well-known coin dealer of his time, Haseltine, who was born in Philadelphia on September 6, 1838, served as a captain in the Civil War with the second regiment of the Pennsylvania Cavalry.”
CLASSIC RARITIES: Adams-Carter 1804 Class III Silver Dollar : Coin Collecting News
“The Toledo Blade reported that after more than three years of liquidation, the agency is set to recoup more than the $50 million the state agency fronted former Toledo-area rare-coin dealer Tom Noe to manage the venture beginning in 1998.”
Liquidation of Noe Rare Coin Fund grosses over $60 Million : Coin Collecting News
“Updated 10/19/2009 – The Township of Montville, New Jersey police department is investigating the October 11, 2009 auto burglary of coin dealer Julian Leidman.”
“Purchased by coin dealer Ed Johnson of Wooster, Ohio from a New York dealer in early 1940.”
Look What I Dug Up! 1817/4 Half Dollar : Coin Collecting News
“Anthony Swiatek, a former president of the ANA, represented the seller, and a Carson City coin dealer represented the buyer, who contacted me on his own initiative.”
New Weekly Column: Coin Rarities & Related Topics : Coin Collecting News
“Charlie is an old school New England coin dealer; one of the last of the “smart and fair” guys (along with Warren Mills from RCNH and a few others) that used to include such now-retired luminaries as Ed Leventhal, Russ Vaughn, Chris Tracey and Jay Miller.”
PCGS Hires a New Grader and Some Thoughts on Third-Party Grading : Coin Collecting News
“Henry Ahlborn was a Boston-area coin dealer who published coin premium lists.”
CLASSIC RARITIES: Adams-Carter 1804 Class III Silver Dollar : Coin Collecting News
“Listed as a coin dealer in the 1900 Federal Census, he lived in Malden, Massachusetts.”
CLASSIC RARITIES: Adams-Carter 1804 Class III Silver Dollar : Coin Collecting News
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