deal (English, noun)
Pronunciation: enpr: dēl
ipa: /diːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).
Definitions: glosses: An act of dealing or sharing out.
tags: archaic
broadly
examples: text: I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
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text: I believe it's your deal.
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topics: card-games
games
synonyms: hand
glosses: The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
examples: text: We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
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text: recognizing the societal deal between capital and labor regarding retirement savings
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text: The deal, which overtakes the £50m paid to Liverpool by Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011 as the highest paid by a British club, takes United’s summer spend to £130.7m, following the £27m spent on Luke Shaw, the £28m for Ander Herrera and £16m for Marcos Rojo.
ref: 2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian:
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synonyms: business deal
sale
trade
transaction
glosses: A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
examples: text: You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.
ref: 2009, The Guardian, Virginia Wallis, 22 Jul 2009
synonyms: steal
bargain
glosses: A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: California lawmakers, their state broke and its credit rating shot, finally sealed the deal with the governor Monday night on a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap.
ref: 2009 July 20, Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times:
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text: He made a deal with the devil.
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text: I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
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text: to cut a deal, to cut deals
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text: to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
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synonyms: contract
pact
glosses: An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
examples: text: What's the deal here?
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text: Their new movie is the biggest deal of the year.
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text: I don't think that's such a big deal.
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glosses: A situation, occasion, or event.
tags: informal
examples: text: The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
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text: I've never killed anybody before. I don't see what's the big deal.
ref: 1996, Graham Yost, Broken Arrow, spoken by Major Vic "Deak" Deakins (John Travolta):
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synonyms: dealy
thingy
whazzit
glosses: A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
tags: informal
examples: text: What's her deal?
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text: His whole deal is, you've got to be for it or against it, and you can't make it better.
ref: 1990, National Archives and Records Administration, quoting Bill Clinton, George Bush: 1992-1993, page 1861:
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text: My boyfriend hates it when I wear makeup or put on a short skirt, but then he points out how hot girls like the Pussycat Dolls are. What's his deal? —Jill, 16, Fresno, CA
ref: 2006 February 6, “Dr. Boy”, in ELLEgirl:
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text: I don't know what her deal was. I think she just cared about the MTV stuff and wanted to be around us, maybe hoping a camera would show up and she'd get her face on the color TV or something.
ref: 2017 April 11, Amber Portwood, Never Too Late, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
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glosses: A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
tags: slang
raw_tags: of a person
Forms: form: deals
tags: plural
Derived terms: a deal is a deal
bed-and-breakfast deal
bedroom deal
big deal
big hairy deal
book deal
bum deal
cut a deal
deal breaker
deal-breakery
deal flow
dealie
deal killer
dealmaker
deal-maker
dealmaking
deal memo
deal with the devil
done deal
dope deal
double deal
drug deal
Faustian deal
handshake deal
here's the deal
holding deal
it's a deal
meal deal
megadeal
misdeal
movie deal
no big deal
no-deal
no deal
package deal
plea deal
postdeal
predeal
raw deal
record deal
rum deal
seal the deal
square deal
step deal
sweetheart deal
sweetheart tax deal
trade deal
what's the deal