fair dealern.1
/fɛː ˈdiːlə/, U.S. /ˌfɛ(ə)r ˈdilər/ A person who acts in a just and honest manner, esp. in business dealings; a person who treats others fairly.
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1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iii. f. xciiv/1 He were a fayre dealer among hys neygbours.
1646 J. Vicars Schismatick Sifted 12 Tell mee, good Reader, whither these our Independents be such fair dealers and truth speakers as the world deems them.
a1682 S. Clarke New Descr. World (1689) 28 Here our Merchants have frequently settled a Factory, the people being generally fair dealers, and wonderfully obliging to strangers.
1746 J. Lockman To 1st Promoter Cambrick & Tea-Bills 25 A Craft, indeed, gives some Fair-dealers pain.
1798 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. (rev. ed.) II. 539 Mr. Hill..transacted money matters as an attorney, and..bore the character of a fair dealer.
1830 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 2 ii. 234/1 The hong and many of the outside men are fair dealers and men of business.
1899 Bookman 9 509/1 An uncompromising truth-teller and fair-dealer in all things.
1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind I. vii. 325 Every one of us knows the difference..between the fair dealer with a conception of a legitimate due and the fellow who watches for a chance of a smart turn on us.
1967 Times 24 July 8/4 He must be a fair dealer whose word is his bond, a fixed point in Commons life.
2005 K. Armstrong Haunted v. 51 I'd spent my life trying to build a reputation as a fair dealer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Fair Dealern.2
/fɛː ˈdiːlə/, U.S. /ˌfɛ(ə)r ˈdilər/ U.S. Politics. Now historical.
An advocate of the Fair Deal reform programme proposed by President H. S. Truman in 1949 (see fair deal n. 2).
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > specific approaches to reform or social betterment > supporter
fair dealer1529
new dealer1876
Fair Dealer1949
1949 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 13 Jan. 4/2 Our ‘fair dealers’ are taking no back seat to the oldtime new dealers.
1954 Manch. Guardian Weekly 14 Jan. 2/3 The false premise that the Fair Dealers were ever in control of the Democratic party.
1972 Amer. Hist. Rev. 77 658 The Fair Dealers made a systematic effort to discover techniques that would be..more practical in alleviating the problems of unequal wealth and opportunity.
2011 Freeman (Nexis) 24 Feb. Buchanan was..a stalwart Fair Dealer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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