(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; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
(n.) One who distributes cards to the players.
Example Sentences:
(1) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(2) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(3) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
(4) Several months ago, the man received about $200,000 worth of marijuana from the cartel and delivered it to another dealer, but he could not repay the cartel, according to court papers.
(5) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
(6) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
(7) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
(8) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
(9) Noda also stepped up the monitoring of foreign exchange positions held by currency dealers.
(10) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
(11) New methods were developed in collaboration with "problem kennels" (animal homes, dealer kennels etc.
(12) Del Seymour knows all about the pimps, drug dealers and vagrants of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district – because he used to be one of them.
(13) If we are going to break the drug dealer’s model, we need to smash demand,” Keenan said.
(14) Dealers desperately want to believe in the German plan so bond yields fell in Italy and Spain yesterday on expectations that Sarkozy and Merkel will settle any remaining differences on Monday, the ECB will cut interest rates on Thursday and the Brussels summit will agree a Grand Bargain on Friday.
(15) She told the court that Tomaszewski had told him a “heavy drug dealer” lived at the house.
(16) But Rubio’s Pac, Reclaim America, hopes to benefit from wealthy individual donors including the Miami car dealer Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, who is believed to have pledged at least $10m.
(17) Poverty is a powerful - if often indirect - recruiter for terrorism and both the Taliban and the drugs dealers often pay good money.
(18) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
(19) He stepped in to support Keogh’s credentials, saying: “He’s actually put drug dealers behind bars.” “As I understand it, the current maximum penalty is 25 years,” he said.
(20) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
Stapler
Definition:
(n.) A dealer in staple goods.
(n.) One employed to assort wool according to its staple.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(2) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(3) The esophagojejunostomy was performed with EEA staplers in 196 cases, and with hand suture in 4 cases.
(4) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
(5) The techniques of Dixon anastomosis by end-to-side EEA stapler is reviewed, applied successfully in 48 cases.
(6) In 73 patients anastomosis was performed by double stapling; in 37 cases the EEA stapler was used.
(7) Since the long-term cosmetic results are equal and the cost price of the staplers are far higher than sutures we cannot recommend staplers for skin closure in routine operations.
(8) This can now be achieved by using a mechanical stapler to obturate temporarily the distal end of the colonic segment bearing a conventional lateral colostomy, then performing an extra-mucosal anastomosis to re-establish continuity.
(9) It is concluded that skin staplers are safe for repair of small wounds, created under ideal conditions, in canine gastrointestinal tracts.
(10) In 1980, Knight and Griffen developed the "double-staple" technique, using a circular stapler to transect a linear rectal staple line.
(11) Thirty-six patients had the anastomosis constructed using the EEA size 25 mm circular stapler (group 1).
(12) Some considerations on the use of staplers, use currently classified as "elective" and "of convenience", are shown.
(13) A selective approach to patient management is advocated, including stapler wedge cecectomy with frozen section diagnosis to avoid extensive bowel resection and retain the ileocecal valve.
(14) The skin stapler produced less inflammation and a better aesthetic result over time than the silk stitches.
(15) The use of a sigmoidoscope to introduce the circular stapler is described.
(16) Of these, 13 had penetrating wounds caused by power nail guns or staplers.
(17) The practicality of the stapler and the favourable clinical experience justify the continued application of the instrumental suture technique in children's surgery.
(18) Compared to hand suturing staplers have not only the advantage of saving time but they also provide for a simple closure of the duodenal stump, the bronchus and the safe anastomosis of the rectum and the esophagus.
(19) This report describes a technique of distal pancreatectomy for both trauma surgery and elective surgery with the TA-55 Auto Suture stapler.
(20) Dukes' stage, grading distal resection margin, and histopathologic differentiation of the distal rectal ring left in the stapler after anastomosis were assessed to determine a prognostic indicator for the recurrence of the tumor.