[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

deal \deal\, v. i.
   1. to make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards
      to the players.
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   2. to do a distributing or retailing business, as
      distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to
      traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
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            they buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --south.
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            this is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other
            petty merchants deal but for parcels. --dr. h. more.
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   3. to act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to
      manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or
      with.
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            sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth
            his own credit with both, by pretending greater
            interest than he hath in either.      --bacon.
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   4. to conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or
      towards any one; to treat.
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            if he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he
            will acknowledge all this to be true. --tillotson.
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   5. to contend with; to treat with, by way of opposition,
      check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to
      deal with.
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   to deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well
      by servants. "such an one deals not fairly by his own
      mind." --locke.

   to deal in.
      a to have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as,
          they deal in political matters.
      b to buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or
          wholesaler; as, they deal in fish.

   to deal with.
      a to treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill;
          to have to do with; specifically, to trade with.
          "dealing with witches." --shak.
      b to reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.
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                the deacons of his church, who, to use their own
                phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting
                the aid which providence so manifestly held out.
                                                  --hawthorne.
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                return . . . and i will deal well with thee.
                                                  --gen. xxxii.
                                                  9.
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see also:
to deal by to deal in to deal with 

Deal >> D Words
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Deal With >> D Words
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Square Deal >> S Words
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Great Deal >> G Words
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New Deal >> N Words
New Deal, definition of term: New Deal
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