Definition of Deal

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Definition of Deal

Deal

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.

Distribution; apportionment.

An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.

The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.

Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.

To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.

To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.

To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.

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Deal Quotations

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Robert H. Schuller

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde

Deal Translations

deal in Afrikaans is uitdeel
deal in Dutch is rondgeven, ronddelen, uitdelen
deal in French is dispenser, distribuer
deal in German is Abkommen, handeln, zuteilen
deal in Latin is paciscor
deal in Norwegian is handel
deal in Spanish is trato

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