deal
IPA: dˈiɫ
noun
- (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
- (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
- (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
- (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
- (a) Male genitalia.
- A coastal town in Kent, England.
verb
- (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
- (baseball) To pitch.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
- (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
- (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
- (transitive, intransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- (intransitive) To be concerned with.
- (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
adjective
- Made of deal.
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Examples of "deal" in Sentences
- Bright Eyes, as well as a label deal for the Ferdinandos.
- "The birds have seen me look a great deal worse than this, a great _deal_ worse," said Jewel cheerfully.
- We had a label deal with Epic at the time, so our country stuff was distributed through Epic in Nashville.
- Julian always explained that very theory when he downplayed his label deal and tried to, in his words, “manage expectations” about what such a deal really meant.
- Libby's best bet -- cut the deal 'and squeal like a stuck Neo-Con pig? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Libby\'s best bet -- cut the deal\ 'and squeal like a stuck Neo-Con pig?'
- MR: Let's say I'm somebody from Grey's Anatomy, and I have an unknown who doesn't have a label deal recording "Don't Stop Believing," in a mischievous faux Glee dream sequence. laughs Am I able to go to you, because you're not licensing a master at that point?
- You have the option of heaping several cards on to one packet, or of merely placing a second row on the top of the first; but you must carefully count the cards as you place them, as each deal of twenty cards must be complete before any can be played -- (the cards that have been played _during the deal_ do not count among the twenty).
- You then take up the next packet, and deal it out in the same manner, beginning on your right (if you are dealing No. 3, deal the first card on No. 4), and continue to deal out each packet till all are exhausted, _pausing between each deal to examine the packets and to make further combinations, and placing on the numerals any suitable cards that may have been produced by the fresh deal_, but the re-deal of each ground packet must be complete before placing cards on the numerals.
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