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deal
1[ deel ]
noun
- a business transaction:
They closed the deal after a week of negotiating.
- a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage:
the best deal in town.
Synonyms: ,
- a secret or underhanded agreement or bargain:
His supporters worked a number of deals to help his campaign.
- Informal. treatment received in an interaction or arrangement with another:
He got a raw deal.
- an indefinite but large quantity, amount, extent, or degree (usually preceded by good or great ):
a good deal of work;
a great deal of money.
- Cards.
- the distribution of cards to the players in a game.
- the set of cards in one's hand.
- the turn of a player to distribute the cards to the players.
- the period of time during which a hand, or set of cards, is played.
- an act of handing out or distributing.
- (initial capital letter) an economic and social policy pursued by a political administration:
the Fair Deal;
the New Deal;
the Green New Deal.
- Obsolete. portion; share.
verb (used without object)
- to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in ):
Botany deals with the study of plants.
He deals in generalities.
- to take action with respect to a thing or person (followed by with ):
Law courts must deal with lawbreakers.
- to conduct oneself toward persons:
He deals fairly.
Synonyms: ,
- to be able to handle competently or successfully; cope (followed by with ):
I can't deal with your personal problems.
- to trade or do business (followed by with or in ):
to deal with a firm;
to deal in used cars.
Synonyms:
- to distribute, especially the cards in a game (often followed by out ): It's your turn to deal.
She dealt out five hands of six cards each.
It's your turn to deal.
- Slang. to buy and sell drugs illegally.
- Archaic. to have dealings or commerce, often in a secret or underhanded manner (often followed by with ):
to deal with the Devil.
verb (used with object)
- to give to one as a share; apportion:
Deal me in.
- to distribute among a number of recipients, as the cards required in a game:
Deal five cards to each player.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- Cards. to give a player (a specific card) in dealing:
You dealt yourself four aces.
- to deliver (an action or a judgment) on or upon someone; administer: Did you see the cat dealing a blow to a dog five times its size?
As a repeat offender, she can expect to be dealt a harsh sentence.
Did you see the cat dealing a blow to a dog five times its size?
- Slang. to buy and sell (drugs) illegally.
- Slang. to trade (an athlete) to another team.
verb phrase
- Poker. to deal the final hand of a game.
- Slang. to get rid of or trade (something or someone) in a transaction.
deal
2[ deel ]
noun
- a board or plank, especially of fir or pine, cut to any of various standard sizes.
- such boards collectively.
- fir or pine wood.
adjective
- made of deal.
Deal
1/ »å¾±Ë±ô /
noun
- a town in SE England, in Kent, on the English Channel: two 16th-century castles: tourism, light industries. Pop: 96Â 670 (2003 est)
deal
2/ »å¾±Ë±ô /
verb
- intrfoll byin to engage (in) commercially
to deal in upholstery
- often foll by out to apportion (something, such as cards) to a number of people; distribute
- tr to give (a blow) to (someone); inflict
- slang.intr to sell any illegal drug
noun
- informal.a bargain, transaction, or agreement
- a particular type of treatment received, esp as the result of an agreement
a fair deal
- an indefinite amount, extent, or degree (esp in the phrases good or great deal )
- cards
- the process of distributing the cards
- a player's turn to do this
- a single round in a card game
- See big deal
- cut a deal informal.to come to an arrangement; make a deal See also deal with
- the real deal informal.a person or thing seen as being authentic and not inferior in any way
deal
3/ »å¾±Ë±ô /
noun
- a plank of softwood timber, such as fir or pine, or such planks collectively
- the sawn wood of various coniferous trees, such as that from the Scots pine ( red deal ) or from the Norway Spruce ( white deal )
adjective
- of fir or pine
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of deal1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of deal1
Origin of deal2
Idioms and Phrases
- cut a deal, Informal. to make an agreement, especially a business agreement:
Networks have cut a deal with foreign stations for an international hookup.
- deal someone in, Slang. to include:
He was making a lot of dough in the construction business so I got him to deal me in.
- seal the deal. seal the deal.
More idioms and phrases containing deal
- big deal
- close the sale (deal)
- cut a deal
- done deal
- good deal
- make a federal case (big deal)
- no deal
- raw deal
- square deal
- sweeten the kitty (deal)
- wheel and deal
Example Sentences
He also claimed he was on the verge of closing a commercial deal with Disney.
Police will go to the resort searching for Rick, and all characters will feel like the police are there for them, which may result in each character panicking to flee or deal with the situation.
But he added that he still believes President Vladimir Putin wants to "make a deal".
He also said one of his staff had to deal with the aftermath of a stabbing while on their way to work recently when "two young boys" had been stabbed in the head and neck.
Amazon MGM Studios in February inked a deal with the longtime producers of the James Bond film franchise — Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G. Wilson — to control the beloved superspy series.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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