I. QUANTIFIER USES
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
If you say that you need or have a great ~ of or a good ~ of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
...a great ~ of money...
I am in a position to save you a good ~ of time.
QUANT: QUANT of n-uncount/def-n emphasis
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Deal is also an adverb.
Their lives became a good ~ more comfortable...
He depended a great ~ on his wife for support.
ADV: ADV compar, ADV after v
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Deal is also a pronoun.
Although he had never met Geoffrey Hardcastle, he knew a good ~ about him.
PRON
II. VERB AND NOUN USES
(~s, ~ing, ~t)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Please look at category 7 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.
1.
If you make a ~, do a ~, or cut a ~, you complete an agreement or an arrangement with someone, especially in business. (BUSINESS)
Japan will have to do a ~ with America on rice imports...
The two sides tried and failed to come to a ~...
He was involved in shady business ~s...
N-COUNT
2.
If a person, company, or shop ~s in a particular type of goods, their business involves buying or selling those goods. (BUSINESS)
They ~ in antiques...
...the rights of our citizens to hold and to ~ in foreign currency.
VERB: V in n, V in n
3.
If someone ~s illegal drugs, they sell them.
I certainly don’t ~ drugs.
VERB: V n
~ing
...his involvement in drug ~ing and illegal money laundering.
N-UNCOUNT: oft n N
4.
If someone has had a bad ~, they have been unfortunate or have been treated unfairly.
The people of Liverpool have had a bad ~ for many, many years.
N-COUNT: adj N
5.
If you ~ playing cards, you give them out to the players in a game of cards.
The croupier ~t each player a card, face down...
He once ~t cards in an illegal gambling joint.
VERB: V n n, V n
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Deal out means the same as ~ .
Dalton ~t out five cards to each player.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
6.
If an event ~s a blow to something or someone, it causes them great difficulties or makes failure more likely. (JOURNALISM)
The summer drought has ~t a heavy blow to the government’s economic record...
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
a raw ~: see raw
see also ~ings , wheel and ~