DEALERSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dealership mean? 

• DEALERSHIP (noun)
  The noun DEALERSHIP has 1 sense:

1. a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

  Familiarity information: DEALERSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEALERSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

dealership; franchise

Hypernyms ("dealership" is a kind of...):

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)

Derivation:

dealer (a firm engaged in trading)

dealer (someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold)