Meanings
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1
noun
An agreement, especially one to buy or sell something.
They made a deal to sell the house.
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2
noun
An arrangement that gives someone a good price or fair treatment.
We got a great deal on our new car.
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3
verb
To handle or take action about something (usually with 'with').
The manager knows how to deal with difficult customers.
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4
verb
To give out playing cards to players in a game.
It's your turn to deal the cards.
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Etymology
From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian дели́ть (delítʹ).