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[deel] 
verb, dealt, deal⋅ing, noun –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
—Verb phrase| 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.
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| 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. |
| 24. | deal off,
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| 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
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.
3. act, behave. 5. traffic. 10. allot, assign, dole; mete, dispense. 16. pact, contract.
deal
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. |
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| deal 1 (dēl) v. dealt (dělt), deal·ing, deals v. tr.
[Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan, to divide, share; see dail- in Indo-European roots.] |
| deal 2 (dēl) n.
[Middle English dele, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German dele, plank.] |
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Deal
Deal\ (d[=e]l), n. [OE. del, deel, part, AS. d[=ae]l; akin to OS. d[=e]l, D. & Dan. deel, G. theil, teil, Icel. deild, Sw. del, Goth. dails. [root]65. Cf. 3d Dole.]1. A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold. Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour. --Num. xv. 9. As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power. --M. Arnold. She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. --W. Black. Note: It was formerly limited by some, every, never a, a thousand, etc.; as, some deal; but these are now obsolete or vulgar. In general, we now qualify the word with great or good, and often use it adverbially, by being understood; as, a great deal of time and pains; a great (or good) deal better or worse; that is, better by a great deal, or by a great part or difference. 2. The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed. The deal, the shuffle, and the cut. --Swift. 3. Distribution; apportionment. [Colloq.] 4. An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains. [Slang] 5. [Prob. from D. deel a plank, threshing floor. See Thill.] The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end. Note: Whole deal is a general term for planking one and one half inches thick. 6. Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal. Deal tree, a fir tree. --Dr. Prior.Deal
Deal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dealt (d[e^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dealing.] [OE. delen, AS. d[=ae]lan, fr. d[=ae]l share; akin to OS. d[=e]lian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel. deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See Deal, n.]1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? --Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. --Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. --Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. --Dryden. 2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.Deal
Deal\, v. i. 1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. 2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More. 3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either. --Bacon. 4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson. 5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by servants. "Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind." --Locke. To deal in. (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as, they deal in political matters. (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as, they deal in fish. To deal with. (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. "Dealing with witches." --Shak. (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with. The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. --Hawthorne. Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. --Gen. xxxii. 9.
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Language Translation for : deal
Spanish:
trato, acuerdo, pacto,
German:
der Handel,
Japanese:
取り引き
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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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)
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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.
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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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