Meaning of deal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. business, enterprise (commercial enterprise or establishment)
2. A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
   obsolete
3. A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3752).
4. An act of dealing or sharing out.
   archaic, broadly
5. Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
   uncountable
6. deal (a particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction)
7. deal someone in, Slang. to include someone.
8. An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
   often
9. A borough on the Jersey Shore, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, named after the Kentish town.
10. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
11. A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
    countable
12. deal (agreement between parties)
13. (usually in plural) contact (often in business), bargaining, agreement etc made (between two or more people or groups). fair/honest dealing; dealing on the Stock Market; I have no dealings with him. handeling, omgang, transaksie تَعامُل، بَيْع وَراء договаряне negócio jednání, obchod, styk der Umgang handel; forretninger; forretningssamkvem συναλλαγή, δοσοληψίαrelaciones, transacciones, negocios ärisuhted, tehing داد و ستد؛ معامله kanssakäyminen relations, transactions מָגַעִים, עֲסָקִים संपर...
    usually in plural
14. An unincorporated community near Meyersdale, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
15. A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
16. A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
    archaic, countable
17. profit, money-making
18. much or a lot. They made a good deal of noise; She spent a great deal of money on it. baie, heelwat مِقْدار كَبير много imenso hodně, spoustu ziemlich/sehr viel en masse πολύςbastante, mucho palju بسیار ؛ زیاد hyvin paljon beaucoup עִסקָה טוֹבָה बहुत, ढेर सारा vrlo mnogo, prilično jó sok (vmiből) banyak mikið molto 多量 많은 daug [] daudz banyak heel watmyesporo دیړه imenso foarte mult, o grămadă много veľa, hŕba precej dosta en hel del จำนวนมาก çok, pek çok 大量 багато, значна кількість بڑی مقدار ...
19. A surname.
20. A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
21. shop
22. To give out in shares or portions; apportion: a critic who deals out as much praise as blame. See Synonyms at distribute.
23. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
24. Games a. To distribute (playing cards) among players.
    Games
25. A situation, occasion, or event.
    informal
26. To sell: deal prescriptions; deal cocaine.
27. A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
    informal
28. To administer; deliver: dealt him a blow to the stomach.
29. A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
    slang
30. To be occupied or concerned: a book that deals with the Middle Ages.
31. To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions: deal honestly with competitors.
32. To take action with respect to someone or something: The committee will deal with this complaint.

Equivalents

Examples

“We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.”

“There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in every thing else, and therefore you should make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.”

“There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.”

““They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.””

“Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.”

“I didn’t have a good deal all evening.”

“I believe it's your deal.”

“We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.”

“recognizing the societal deal between capital and labor regarding retirement savings”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He made a deal with the devil.”

“I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.”

“to cut a deal, to cut deals”

“to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal”

“What's the deal here?”

“Their new movie is the biggest deal of the year.”

“I don't think that's such a big deal.”

“The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.”

“I've never killed anybody before. I don't see what's the big deal.”

“What's her deal?”

“His whole deal is, you've got to be for it or against it, and you can't make it better.”

“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”

“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.”

“1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 86, Some Houses were […] entirely lock’d up, the Doors padlockt, the Windows and Doors having Deal Boards nail’d over them,”

“A brisk fire burned in the grate, there were three comfortable chairs, and a deal table with a water carafe, a bucket of coals, and a few other amenities.”

“It shall not be lawful for any person to land any timber, planks or board, deals, staves, tar, pitch, turpentine, rozin or other the commodities aforesaid, on any part of the present quays within the city of Bristol, from any vessel coming into the said port...”

“Swedish deals from ports in the Baltic”

“1 deal (US) = 12 ft x 11 in. x 3/2 in. (E)”

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