Definitions for dealt

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dealt dealt

Spelling: [delt]

IPA: /dɛlt/

Dealt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in dealt (adelt).

Definitions for dealt

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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of deal1 .

Idioms

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

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 dealt

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 dealt

In defeating Sen. Mark Udall, Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner dealt a serious blow to the “war on women” narrative.

God has never, as far as we can see, dealt in special and temporary gifts.

He has dealt with a great deal of intransigence from the GOP-controlled Congress.

He dealt with the question on theological, legal and social grounds.

There was a certain tenderness in his hands, as in his voice, when he dealt with children.

There was the empathetic way she dealt with the revelation that Mrs. Baxter is a former criminal.

When we dealt fairly with them there was never any such trouble.

As she looked into his eyes, she could feel the double hurt that Fate had dealt him.

“We dealt with so many problems when we were shooting in New York, like trying to shoot during Hurricane Sandy,” says Esco.

He dealt drugs, was addicted to cocaine by the time he was 13, and found himself constantly in trouble with the law.