deal

Meaning

1. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
2. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
3. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
4. deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
5. To pitch.
6. To have dealings or business.
7. To conduct oneself, to behave.
8. (obsolete) To take action; to act.
9. To trade professionally (followed by in).
10. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
11. To be concerned with.
12. To handle, to manage, to cope.

trade

bargain

buy and sell

address

make a deal

business deal

make a contract

business transaction

good deal

mutual agreement

tidy sum

quite a little

wield

yield

pine board

arrangment

legal agreement

comport

get involve

great amount

molto

have dealings

pass around

deal board

take charge of

binding agreement

traffic in

screen off

make someone eat

share-out

full amount

single game

business agreement

the set of cards in one’s hand

African gray

look out on

trading operation

transact business

endue

get along with

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/diːl/

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).