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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. Related Definitions: Above, Act, Affair, Also, An, And, Any, Applied, Apportionment, Arrangement, As, At, Attain, Batten, Behave, Bestow, Between, Board, Business, By, Called, Check, Cold, Combination, Commencement, Conduct, Contend, Correction, Deal, Dealing, Degree, Desired, Distinguished, Distribute, Distributing, Distribution, Disturbed, Divide, Division, Do, End, Exceeding, Extent, Feet, Fir, Floor, Flour, Followed, From, Game, Give, He, Hence, Has, If, In, Indefinite, Interested, Intermediary, Is, It, Jack, Length, Made, Make, Manage, Manufacturer, Narrower, Of, One, Opposition, Or, Out, Part, Particularly, Parties, Piece, Pine, Plank, Political, Portion, Process, Producer, Quantity, Result, Retailing, Sawing, Self, Separate, Seven, Share, Six, Sometimes, Specifically, Stock, Successively, Than, That, The, This, Timber, Time, To, Towards, Trade, Traffic, Treat, Trouble, Turbulent, Way, Width, With, Wood

Deal Quotations The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. Ben Stein I deal in facts. Louis Freeh Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. John Ruskin Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras I don't think it's changed a great deal. Will Champion

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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