单词 | dealer |
释义 | dealern. One who deals (in various senses of the verb). 1. a. One who divides, distributes, delivers. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] > dividing and sharing out > one who dealerc1000 divider1526 reparter1574 parceller1664 departitor1884 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 129 Diuisor, dælere. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 117 Delare, or he þat delythe, distributor, partitor. Delare, or grete almysse yevere, rogatorius. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Distributeur, a distributor, dealer, diuider. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. i. 4 The dealer of the death-wound to the spirit of Pharisaism was a Pharisee. b. spec. The player who distributes the cards. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-player > dealer, cutter, or shuffler dealer1600 cutter1882 shuffler1894 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood iii. 58 Make him but dealer..If you do finde good dealing, take his eares. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester xviii. 141 Then the Dealer..shuffling them after cutting deals to every one three apiece. 1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 19 The Dealer then deals nine cards to each player. 2. One who has dealings with a person; one who deals in (a thing); †an agent, negotiator. Obsolete in general sense except as transferred from 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > intermediate agency > intermediate means > person as dealerc1000 meanc1384 mediatorc1390 moyen1455 intermediator1522 broker1530 middlera1533 intercessor1554 mercury1602 intermedial1605 transactor1611 interdealer1613 intermeddler1630 intercommuner1638 middleman1648 second hand1655 inter-agent1728 intermediary1791 in-between1815 medium1817 intermediate1879 come-between1919 tolkach1955 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who deals with handler1537 dealer1586 haberdasher1592 manager1598 conductor1634 c1000 Ælfric Deut. v. 5 Ic wæs dælere betwix Gode and eow. 1586 St. Trials, Q. Mary (R.) I was acquainted, I confess, with their practices, but I never did intend to be a dealer in them. c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1735) 396 He was accused to have been a Dealer with the Earl of Bothwell. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Agent, an Agent, a dealer, negotiator. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iv. 114 A Sorcerer and Inchanter, a Witch or Dealer with the Devil. 1745 J. Swift Thoughts Var. Subj. in H. Davis Prose Wks. IV. 250 These small dealers in wit and learning. 3. One who deals in merchandise, a trader; spec. one who sells articles in the same condition in which he has bought them; often in combination, as cattle-dealer, corn-dealer, horse-dealer, money-dealer. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] mongereOE chapmanc890 haberdasher1311 need doera1382 handlera1398 unfreeman1445 occupier1509 taker-up1548 trafficker1560 pliers1565 copeman1566 trader1566 copemaster1579 couper1581 drover1585 negotiator1596 merchandiser1597 coper1609 dealer1611 commercer1632 market-maker1647 general dealer1709 negotianta1774 outfitter1829 man- 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trafiqueur, a trafficker, trader, marchant, occupier, dealer in the world. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. iii. (R.) Such small money (though the people's gold With which they trade) great dealers skorne to take. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. Introd. 4 A very great number of considerable dealers, whom we call tradesmen. 1793 Capt. Bentinck in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 48 He is supplied with horses by some dealer in Town. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. iii. xi. §5. 46 Dealers in money (as lenders by profession are improperly called). 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Oct. 2/1 Costers and hucksters and those not too particular buyers who are euphemistically known as ‘general dealers’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > behaviour towards another or treatment > one who dealer1561 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. H.iij An vntrue dealer, and a despiser of men. 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Philos. (new ed.) (Palfr.) viii. i. f. 180 Hipocrites and double dealers. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxi. 2 The treacherous dealer . View more context for this quotation 1677 Wycherley (title) The Plain Dealer. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine i What! call Peter Brock a double-dealer? 5. A jobber on the Stock Exchange. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > jobber in stock exchange jobbera1626 stock-jobbera1626 dealer1719 market dealer1872 market man1895 market-maker1962 1719 D. Defoe Anat. Exchange-Alley 4 A young Dealer that has Money to lay out. 1837 Penny Mag. 6 186/2 Dealers in bills purchase them either to get a commission, or in return for goods exported. 1870 Gentleman's Mag. New Ser. 5 484 The dealers were almost unable to sell stock of any kind. 1890 Cassell's Sat. Jrnl. June 724/3 A jobber was engaged in ‘banging’ the market... Another dealer saw through the trick. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 23/2 Much of the work of the Stock Exchange account is carried out by a department of that institution corresponding to the bankers' clearing house. Its function is to bring into direct communication the ultimate buyer and the ultimate seller as represented by their respective brokers, thus eliminating, for the purposes of the settlement, the middleman known as the ‘dealer’ or ‘jobber’. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 9/3 Those dozens of other dealers are on the look-out for orders from brokers whose clientèle lies amongst the great body of the public. 1970 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 259/1 Dealers or jobbers in these securities take up their posts in this space every day, and dealers in other classes of securities similarly occupy the floor space allotted to their particular markets. Draft additions August 2007 a. With modifying word, as dope, heroin, cocaine, etc. A person who sells the kind of illegal drug specified. Cf. drug dealer n. (b) at drug n.1 Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1901 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 27 Feb. 1 (heading) Dope dealer..peddler of Morphine makes big money in his trade. 1937 Jrnl. Criminal Law 27 856 It has been observed that the racketeering mode of life is not confined to the heroin-dealer. 1975 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (new ed.) Suppl. 747/2 The 1972 motion picture Super Fly, about a cocaine dealer in Harlem. 1997 H. Kureishi Love in Blue Time 4 Kara had found him..with a smack dealer, though he claimed to have given that up. b. A person who sells illegal drugs. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of illicit drugs drug dealer1800 drug peddler1889 swing man1903 drug pusher1904 drug trafficker1912 dope-merchant1921 junker1922 dope-pedlar1923 junkie1923 pedlar1929 pusher1929 dope-seller1930 dope-runner1933 connection1934 dope-smuggler1937 tea man1938 man1942 dealer1951 score1951 passer1956 candy man1965 narcotraficante1980 clocker1989 1951 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Tribune 14 June 5/3 We should execute the dealer who is not himself a drug addict. 1976 R. Sabbag Snow Blind v. 81 A dealer dealing in quantity, buying and selling kilos (of cocaine), will hit his product with borax, because it is extremely heavy. 1993 Guardian 16 Oct. 6/2 An article by a former senior drugs squad officer arguing for legalisation as a way of removing the dealer's power base. 2004 N. Barham Dis/Connected 147 You can be prosecuted for being a dealer if you sort out a few mates. 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