deal (plural deals)
- (archaic) A division, a portion, a share.
- We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
- (often followed by of) A quantity, a lot (usually qualified by great or good.)
- Skydiving requires a good deal of courage.
- I'm a good deal older than I used to be.
- That doesn't make a great deal of sense.
- (informal) A situation.
- What's the deal?
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- The deal with four tines is called a fork
Synonyms
- (large number or amount or extent): batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, load, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
- (act of apportioning or distributing): allotment, apportionment, distribution, doling out, sharing, sharing out
Verb
| Infinitive | Third person singular | Simple past | Past participle | Present participle |
to deal (third-person singular simple present deals, present participle dealing, simple past dealt, past participle dealt)
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- I dealt him a mighty blow
- To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- I was dealt four aces.
- The cards were shuffled and dealt by the croupier.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- Now you'll have to deal with me.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in)
- She deals in gold.
- (transitive) To sell (illicit drugs.)
- This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- The film dealt with a sensitive subject.
- (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
- There's only one way to deal with people like her.
- I can't deal with this.
Synonyms
- (distribute among a number of recipients): apportion, divvy up, share, share out, portion out
- (administer in portions): administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, hand out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out
- (distribute (cards)):
- (baseball slang: to pitch): pitch, throw
- (have dealings with)
- (trade): sell, trade in
- (sell (illicit drugs)): sell
- (be concerned with)
- (handle, cope)
Noun
| Singular | Plural |
deal (plural deals)
- The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
- I believe it's your deal.
- A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction
- We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement
- He made a deal with the devil.
- It's a deal!
Synonyms
- (cards held in a card game by a player at any given time): hand
- (instance of buying or selling): business deal, sale, trade, transaction
- (agreement between parties fixing obligations of each): contract, pact
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