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1  [deel] verb, dealt, deal⋅ing, noun
Use Deal in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to occupy oneself or itself (usually fol. by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
2. to take action with respect to a thing or person (fol. by with): Law courts must deal with lawbreakers.
3. to conduct oneself toward persons: He deals fairly.
4. to be able to handle competently or successfully; cope (fol. by with): I can't deal with your personal problems.
5. to trade or do business (fol. by with or in): to deal with a firm; to deal in used cars.
6. to distribute, esp. the cards in a game (often fol. by out): to deal out five hands of six cards each; your turn to deal.
7. Slang. to buy and sell drugs illegally.
8. Archaic. to have dealings or commerce, often in a secret or underhand manner (often fol. by with): to deal with the Devil.
–verb (used with object)
9. to give to one as a share; apportion: Deal me in.
10. to distribute among a number of recipients, as the cards required in a game: Deal five cards to each player.
11. Cards. to give a player (a specific card) in dealing: You dealt yourself four aces.
12. to deliver; administer: to deal a blow.
13. Slang. to buy and sell (drugs) illegally.
14. Slang. to trade (an athlete) to another team.
–noun
15. a business transaction: They closed the deal after a week of negotiating.
16. a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage: the best deal in town.
17. a secret or underhand agreement or bargain: His supporters worked a number of deals to help his campaign.
18. Informal. treatment received in dealing with another: He got a raw deal.
19. an indefinite but large quantity, amount, extent, or degree (usually prec. by good or great): a good deal of work; a great deal of money.
20. Cards.
a. the distribution of cards to the players in a game.
b. the set of cards in one's hand.
c. the turn of a player to deal.
d. the period of time during which a deal is played.
21. an act of dealing or distributing.
22. (initial capital letter) an economic and social policy pursued by a political administration: the Fair Deal; the New Deal.
23. Obsolete. portion; share.
—Verb phrase
24. deal off,
a. Poker. to deal the final hand of a game.
b. Slang. to get rid of or trade (something or someone) in a transaction.
—Idioms
25. cut a deal, Informal. to make an agreement, esp. a business agreement: Networks have cut a deal with foreign stations for an international hookup.
26. 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.
Origin:
bef. 900; (v.) ME delen, OE dǣlan (c. G teilen), deriv. of dǣl part (c. G Teil); (n.) in part deriv. of the v.; (in defs. 19 and 23) ME deel, del(e), OE dǣl

Synonyms:
3. act, behave. 5. traffic. 10. allot, assign, dole; mete, dispense. 16. pact, contract.
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2  [deel]
–noun
1. a board or plank, esp. of fir or pine, cut to any of various standard sizes.
2. such boards collectively.
3. fir or pine wood.
–adjective
4. made of deal.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME dele < MLG or MD; see thill
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deal 1   (dēl)   
v.   dealt (dělt), deal·ing, deals

v.   tr.

  1. To give out as a share or portion; apportion.

  2. To distribute among several recipients. See Synonyms at distribute.

  3. To sell: deal prescriptions; deal cocaine.

  4. To administer; deliver: dealt him a blow to the stomach.

  5. Games

    1. To distribute (playing cards) among players.

    2. To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.

v.   intr.

  1. To be occupied or concerned: a book that deals with the Middle Ages.

  2. To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions: deal honestly with competitors.

  3. To take action with respect to someone or something: The committee will deal with this complaint. See Synonyms at treat.

  4. To do business; trade: dealing in diamonds.

  5. Games To distribute playing cards.

  6. Slang To buy and sell drugs, especially illegally.

  7. Slang To cope: You've got no choice—just deal with it!

n.  

  1. The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.

  2. Games

    1. Distribution of playing cards.

    2. The cards so distributed; a hand.

    3. The right or turn of a player to distribute the cards.

    4. The playing of one hand.

    5. A business transaction.

    6. An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial. See Synonyms at bargain.

  3. An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree: has a great deal of experience.

  4. An agreement often arranged secretly, as in business or politics.

    1. A business transaction.

    2. An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial. See Synonyms at bargain.

  6. Informal A sale favorable especially to the buyer; a bargain.

  7. Informal Treatment received: a raw deal; a fair deal.


[Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan, to divide, share; see dail- in Indo-European roots.]
deal 2   (dēl)   
n.  

    1. A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.

    2. Such boards or planks considered as a group.

  2. Fir or pine wood.


[Middle English dele, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German dele, plank.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

deal  (1)
from O.E. dæl "part, share, quantity," and its verbal derivative dælan "to divide," from P.Gmc. *dailaz; also found in Balto-Slavic (cf. O.C.S. delu "part," Lith. dalis). Meaning "to distribute cards before a game" is from 1529; business sense is 1837, originally slang. Meaning "an amount" is from 1562. New Deal is from F.D. Roosevelt speech of July 1932. Big deal is 1928; ironic use first recorded 1951 in "Catcher in the Rye." To deal with "handle" is attested from 1469. Dealership is from 1916.

deal  (2)
"plank or board of pine," 1402, from Low Ger. (cf. M.L.G. dele), from P.Gmc. *theljon. An O.E. derivative was þelu "hewn wood, board, flooring."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: deal
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: dealt; deal·ing
transitive verb : to carry on the business of buying or esp. selling (something) <dealing drugs> intransitive verb 1 : to engage in bargaining
2 : to sell or distribute something as a business or for money <dealing in real estate> <deal in stolen property>

Main Entry: deal
Function: noun
1 : an act of dealing : a business transaction
2 : an arrangement for mutual advantage (as for a defendant to testify in exchange for immunity from prosecution)
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

deal

In addition to the idioms beginning with deal, also see 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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Encyclopedia

Deal

town, Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England, on the English Channel. The town has a natural roadstead harbour, the Downs, enclosed by the North and South Forelands and the perilous Goodwin Sands.

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