deal
Forms
- Plural
- deals
- present (v1)
- deal
- past (v2)
- dealt
- past participle (v3)
- dealt
- present participle
- dealing
- 3rd person singular
- deals
Definitions
1.An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
- There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.
- There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in every thing else, and therefore you should make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.
2.The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
- I believe it's your deal.
3.A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
4.A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.
1.To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
- The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
2.To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- Norwich returned to second in the Championship with victory over Nottingham Forest, whose promotion hopes were dealt another blow.
3.To take action with regard to someone or something.
4.To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
- I was dealt four aces.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #679
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English del, dele, from Old English dǣl (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-West Germanic *daili, from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰ(h₁)-oy-lo- (“part, watershed”).