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# dealer

«dealer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or business that buys and sells a particular…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dealer, dealers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dealer is a person or business that buys and sells a particular kind of thing, such as cars, art or antiques. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#m1)

2) In card games, the dealer is the person who hands out the cards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#m2)

3) A drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: car dealers, art dealers, antique dealers. In card games at home and school: «Who's the dealer?» In safety lessons: drug dealers break the law and may target young people; say no and tell a trusted adult.

### examples

- Dad bought our car from a dealer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x1)
- The dealer shuffled the cards and dealt five each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x2)
- The art dealer sold the painting for a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x3)
- It's your turn to be the dealer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x4)
- Never take anything from a drug dealer — tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x5)
- The antique dealer said the clock was 200 years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x6)
- Then the horse-dealers came together and began to bargain for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb: deal, past dealt (pronounced «delt»). Related: dealership (a car dealer's shop).

### In the corpora

- [New cars travel to dealers on double-deck car transporter lorries, and car ships can carry several thousand cars at once.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/16/)
- [A grievous vision is declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.418/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dealer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dealer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.