fair dealn.
/ˌfɛː ˈdiːl/, U.S. /ˈfɛ(ə)r ˈdil/ 1. A deal or transaction which is just or reasonable. Also: (an instance of) equitable treatment. Cf. square deal at deal n.2 4c(b).
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society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > action
fair play?a1500
square play or dealing1592
the square thing1592
fair dealing1609
to do justice to (a person or thing)1610
fair deal1837
fairation1847
fair do's1859
square deal1876
fair dinkum1881
cricket1900
1837 Hampshire Advertiser 27 May To this [sc. returning the horses] the horse dealer strenuously objected as ‘it was a fair deal’.
1847 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 582/2 I'm for the fair deal, and only want what's right.
1866 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 15 May Passengers and shippers will have a fair deal from Capt. Todd.
1928 Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 6/2 The men have had a fair deal.
1958 New Statesman 22 Feb. 219/1 The government in Djakarta refused to give Sumatra a fair deal.
1976 J. Gibbs et al. in J. R. Meyer Refl. Values Educ. 30 Right is serving one's own or other's needs and making fair deals in terms of concrete exchange.
2011 Sphere Spring 100/1 On Valentine's Day the first bar of Fairtrade gold arrived in London, so you can now buy gold jewels that ensure small-scale miners get a fair deal.
2. U.S. Politics. With capital initials. A name for: the set of proposals aimed at improving social conditions in the United States, outlined by President H. S. Truman in 1949 at his State of the Union address (see quot. 19491). Cf. new deal n. 2b. Now historical.The Fair Deal included measures to provide increased public housing, federal aid to education and farmers, an increase in the minimum wage, the establishment of national health insurance, and the protection of civil rights for African Americans. Much of the programme was never implemented, owing to strong conservative opposition in Congress.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > specific approaches to reform or social betterment
new frontier1912
new deal1932
fair deal1949
1945 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 20 Apr. 4/5 The time has come for a ‘Fair Deal’ rather than a ‘New Deal’. Mr. Truman will try to see that the country gets this.
1949 H. S. Truman in Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 5 Jan. 1/7 Every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from his government a Fair Deal.]
1949 Boston Globe 6 Jan. 1 (headline) Truman ‘Fair Deal’ Starts... Moving swiftly to carry out President Truman's ‘Fair Deal’ program,..leaders offered the first bills in House and Senate.
1953 Changing Times Mar. 8/2 Doers and men of action have tended to replace the..idealistic planners of the Fair Deal.
1989 D. T. Critchlow in D. T. Critchlow & E. W. Hawley Federal Social Policy 18 Truman's Fair Deal program..called for the further expansion of Social Security, national health insurance, and a full employment program.
2011 J. M. Murrin et al. Liberty, Equality, Power xxvii. 758 The Fair Deal..envisioned substantial spending on public housing projects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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