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say it: DEE-lur
dealer is a noun meaning "someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold". It is pronounced /ˈdilɚ/ — DEE-lur. It carries 5 recorded senses.
someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
a firm engaged in trading
the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dealer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.