Definitions for deal

• Definition
• Anagrams (41)

deal deal

Spelling: [deel]

IPA: /dil/

Deal is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in deal (adel).

Definitions for deal

noun

1. a business transaction:
2. a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage:
3. a secret or underhand agreement or bargain:
4. Informal. treatment received in dealing with another:
5. an indefinite but large quantity, amount, extent, or degree (usually preceded by good or great):
6. Cards. the distribution of cards to the players in a game. the set of cards in one's hand. the turn of a player to deal. the period of time during which a deal is played.
7. an act of dealing or distributing.
8. (initial capital letter) an economic and social policy pursued by a political administration:
9. Obsolete. portion; share.
10. a board or plank, especially of fir or pine, cut to any of various standard sizes.
11. such boards collectively.
12. fir or pine wood.

Idioms

1. cut a deal, Informal. to make an agreement, especially a business agreement:
2. deal someone in, Slang. to include:

adjective

1. made of deal.

Verb phrases

1. deal off, Poker. to deal the final hand of a game. Slang. to get rid of or trade (something or someone) in a transaction.

verb (used with object)

1. to give to one as a share; apportion:
2. to distribute among a number of recipients, as the cards required in a game:
3. Cards. to give a player (a specific card) in dealing:
4. to deliver; administer:
5. Slang. to buy and sell (drugs) illegally.
6. Slang. to trade (an athlete) to another team.

verb (used without object)

1. to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in):
2. to take action with respect to a thing or person (followed by with):
3. to conduct oneself toward persons:
4. to be able to handle competently or successfully; cope (followed by with):
5. to trade or do business (followed by with or in):
6. to distribute, especially the cards in a game (often followed by out):
7. Slang. to buy and sell drugs illegally.
8. Archaic. to have dealings or commerce, often in a secret or underhand manner (often followed by with):

Origin of deal

before 900; (v.) Middle English delen, Old English dǣlan (cognate with German teilen), derivative of dǣl part (cognate with German Teil); (noun) in part derivative of the v.; (in defs 19, 23)

Examples for deal

“Personally, I deal with manners of righteousness and God,” he says.

No, he couldn't go just yet—he'd have to stay with the deal another month.

Speculation raged that Duke agreed not to run as part of the deal, though it was never proven.

He became obsessed with the idea that the people with whom he had to deal were "out to get him."

White rappers are always difficult to comprehend, difficult to deal with.

It is from this point of view that we must deal with the early idea of God as a God of battles.

Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

Parker tells of a new Texas struggling to deal with inequality.

The men I had to deal with were more to be pitied than blamed.

A deal with the Rothschilds for control of the Spanish mines had fallen through.