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 →

2) In card games, the dealer is the person who hands out the cards. tree →

3) A drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. tree →

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 →
• The dealer shuffled the cards and dealt five each. tree →
• The art dealer sold the painting for a lot of money. tree →
• It's your turn to be the dealer. tree →
• Never take anything from a drug dealer — tell an adult. tree →
• The antique dealer said the clock was 200 years old. tree →
• Then the horse-dealers came together and began to bargain for it. tree →

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.
• A grievous vision is declared unto me: 'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dealer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.