bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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(noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
(noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
(noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
(noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
(noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
(noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
dealer | (noun) a firm engaged in trading | - |
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(noun) a seller of illicit goods | - |
(noun) the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game | - |
(noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, monger, trader |
(noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: principal |
dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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dealfish | (noun) deep-sea ribbonfish | Synonyms: Trachipterus arcticus |
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dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
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dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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(noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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(noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
(noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
ideal | (noun) the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain | - |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
idealisation | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealization |
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(noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealization |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealization |
idealism | (noun) impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are | - |
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(noun) elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued | Synonyms: high-mindedness, noble-mindedness |
(noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality | - |
idealist | (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: dreamer |
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ideality | (noun) the quality of being ideal | - |
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idealization | (noun) a portrayal of something as ideal | Synonyms: glorification, idealisation |
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(noun) something that exists only as an idea | Synonyms: idealisation |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | Synonyms: idealisation |
idealogue | (noun) someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) | Synonyms: theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer |
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misdeal | (noun) an incorrect deal | - |
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newsdealer | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsagent, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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ordeal | (noun) a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence | Synonyms: trial by ordeal |
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(noun) a severe or trying experience | - |