dealnoun
uk/diːl/us/diːl/deal noun (AGREEMENT)
B2 [ C ] an agreement or an arrangement, especially in business:
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- They backed out of the deal the day before they were due to sign the contract.
- Do you think the government should try to strike a deal with the terrorists?
- We won't be able to make a profit on the deal unless we raise the sale price.
- After some tough bargaining, we finally agreed on a deal.
- Our firm could lose a lot of money if the deal is unsuccessful.
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Business - general words
- Age of Exploration
- B2B
- B2C
- back office
- big business
- corporate memory
- devolution
- devolve
- devolve sth to sb
- fair trade
- globalization
- mass market
- mass market
- niche market
- offshore
- open market
- private
- private enterprise
- privately
- tender
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deal noun (AMOUNT)
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- We Americans owe a great deal to our European cousins.
- I've been in this job for 30 years, and I've picked up a good deal of expertise along the way.
- This product has excited a great deal of media interest.
- A great deal has been achieved, most notably free elections.
- There is a great deal of interest in harnessing wind and waves as new sources of power.
B2 a large amount:
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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deal noun (SHARING OUT)
[ C ] the act of dealing (= sharing out) something, especially playing cards:
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- full house
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- snap
- strip poker
- suit
- trump
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dealverb [ I or T ]
uk/diːl/us/diːl/dealt, dealtdeal verb [ I or T ] (DO BUSINESS)
to do business:
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- He was picked up by the police for drug dealing.
- He proposed dealing directly with the suppliers.
- Make sure you are dealing with a bona fide company.
- They have always dealt honestly and fairly with their customers.
- Drug dealing is punishable by death in some countries.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Business - general words
- Age of Exploration
- B2B
- B2C
- back office
- big business
- corporate memory
- devolution
- devolve
- devolve sth to sb
- fair trade
- globalization
- mass market
- mass market
- niche market
- offshore
- open market
- private
- private enterprise
- privately
- tender
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deal verb [ I or T ] (SHARE OUT)
to give or share out something, especially playing cards:
to cause someone or something, usually a plan or hope, to fail or to be affected very badly:
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- He had psychotherapy to help him deal with his childhood traumas.
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Card games
- bridge
- canasta
- card sharp
- dealer
- diamond
- discard
- flush
- full house
- grand slam
- jack
- joker
- pass
- pool
- rummy
- shuffle
- singleton
- snap
- strip poker
- suit
- trump
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