- a business transaction: They closed the deal after a week of negotiating.
- a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage: the best deal in town.
- a secret or underhanded agreement or bargain: His supporters worked a number of deals to help his campaign.
- 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.
- an economic and social policy pursued by a political administration: the Fair Deal;the New Deal;the Green New Deal.
- portion; share.
- 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.
- 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.
- to distribute, especially the cards in a game (often followed by out): She dealt out five hands of six cards each. It's your turn to deal.
- to buy and sell drugs illegally.
- to have dealings or commerce, often in a secret or underhanded manner (often followed by with): to deal with the Devil.
- 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.
- 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: 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?
- to buy and sell (drugs) illegally.
- to trade (an athlete) to another team.
- deal off,
- to deal the final hand of a game.
- to get rid of or trade (something or someone) in a transaction.
- to make an agreement, especially a business agreement: Networks have cut a deal with foreign stations for an international hookup.
- to include: He was making a lot of dough in the construction business so I got him to deal me in.
- See entry at seal the deal.
- a board or plank, especially of fir or pine, cut to any of various standard sizes.
- such boards collectively.
- fir or pine wood.
- made of deal.
- to engage (in) commercially
- to apportion (something, such as cards) to a number of people; distribute
- to give (a blow) to (someone); inflict
- to sell any illegal drug
- a bargain, transaction, or agreement
- a particular type of treatment received, esp as the result of an agreement
- 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
- to come to an arrangement; make a deal
- a person or thing seen as being authentic and not inferior in any way
- 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)
- of fir or pine
- a town in SE England, in Kent, on the English Channel: two 16th-century castles: tourism, light industries. Pop: 96 670 (2003 est)