DEAL


Meaning of DEAL in English

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

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

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.

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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

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 ~

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