Meanings
plural dealerships
- A place that sells items, especially cars.
I visited the car dealership today.
1 more example
It comes as a series of weekly protests branded “Tesla Takedown” have occurred at various locations across the U.S., which has seen a number of vehicles set on fire and various charging stations and dealerships vandalized by protesters. On Tuesday, a masked man used molotov cocktails to firebomb a Tesla dealership in Las Vegas before firing rounds into the burning vehicles.
2025 March 19, Tom Sanders, “Anti-Musk Hackers Share Names and Addresses of Tesla Owners”, in The Daily Beast
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*dailiz
- Proto-Germanic*dailijaną
- Old Englishdǣlan
- Old Englishdǣlere
- Middle Englishdelare
- Englishdealer
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishdealership
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 車行 /车行
- 車行 /车行 (chēháng)a place that sells items, especially cars
Dutch dealer
- dealera place that sells items, especially cars
Finnish liike, myymälä
- liikea place that sells items, especially cars
- myymäläa place that sells items, especially cars
- autoliike (car dealership)a place that sells items, especially cars
French concessionnaire
- concessionnairea place that sells items, especially cars
German Verkaufsvertretung
- Verkaufsvertretunga place that sells items, especially cars
Italian concessionario, concessionaria
- concessionarioa place that sells items, especially cars
- concessionariaa place that sells items, especially cars
Polish autogiełda
- autogiełdaa place that sells items, especially cars
Portuguese concessionária
- concessionáriaa place that sells items, especially cars
Russian аге́нтство
- аге́нтство (agéntstvo)a place that sells items, especially cars
Spanish concesionario, concesionaria
- concesionarioa place that sells items, especially cars
- concesionariaa place that sells items, especially cars
- automotoraa place that sells items, especially cars
Swedish återförsäljare
- återförsäljarea place that sells items, especially cars
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
dealership. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dealership
“dealership.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dealership. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dealership,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dealership.
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