dealer

Noun

• the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game

• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

• a seller of illicit goods
  • a dealer in stolen goods
    

• a firm engaged in trading

• someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  principal , trader , bargainer , monger