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dealnoun1 a considerable amountthere is a great deal of waste in government abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings(also lashins, chiefly British), loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard epidemic, plague, rashbonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplusdeluge, flood, overflowarmy, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, thronggazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillion all kinds (of), quite a bit ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen(also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whitsmatter, smatteringdash, drop, morsel, shotpiece, portion, sectionabsence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, wantdeficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness dealnoun2an arrangement about action to be takenwe made a deal to cooperate on the next assignment accord, agreement, bargain, compact, contract, convention, covenant, disposition, pact, settlement, understanding charter, treatybinder, pledge, promisealliance, association, entente, entente cordiale, league, partnershipacceptance, approval, assent, concurrence, consent, OK(or okay) the transfer of ownership of something from one person to another for a pricewe closed the deal for the house last week sale, trade, transaction auction, silent auctionhaggle, horse-trading, negotiationbargain, buy, stealpurchaseclearance, closeout, fire salefairgarage sale, jumble sale(British), rummage sale, tag sale, yard sale a formal agreement to fulfill an obligationif the other party backs out of the deal after it's signed, you can sue bond, contract, covenant, guarantee, guaranty, surety, warranty oath, pledge, troth, vow, wordaccord, bargain, compact, concordat, convention, pact, treatyassurance, insurance, sealbail, deposit, pawn, security position with regard to conditions and circumstanceswe don't yet know what the deal is with the new manager ball game, footing, picture, posture, scene, situation, status, story rank, standingplace, spot, statescore, status quo something bought or offered for sale at a desirable pricethat mail-order sweater isn't such a great deal after you factor in the cost of shipping and handling bargain, buy, pennyworth, snip(British), steal clearance, closeout, markdowncheapiebonus, freebie(or freebee), gift, giveaway, premium, presentboon, windfall gouging, overcharge, rip-off, soakingmarkup, surchargeextravagance, luxury dealverbto carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other propertythat store deals in used furniture trade, traffic bargain, barter, horse-trade, negotiate, transactauction, exchange, merchandise(also merchandize), rebuy, resell, swapbuy, pick up, purchase, takedistribute, fair-trade, market, peddle, retail, sell, supply, vend, wholesaleblack-market, bootleg, fence, smugglecorner, engross, monopolize, undersellday-trade, invest, speculate black(chiefly British), blackball, boycott to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchaseyou're going to have to learn how to deal if you want to buy a car at a fair price bargain, chaffer, dicker, haggle, horse-trade, negotiate, palter argue, bicker, clash, fight, hassle, quarrel, quibble, squabble, wranglecomparison shop, shop (around)barter, exchange, tradehawk, peddlebuy, purchase cut a deal, wheel and deal v.distribute, dispense, divide, deal, dole out mean to give out, usually in shares, to each member of a group.distribute implies an apportioning by separation of something into parts, units, or amounts.distributed food to the needy dispense suggests the giving of a carefully weighed or measured portion to each of a group according to due or need.dispensed wisdom to the students divide stresses the separation of a whole into parts and implies that the parts are equal.three charitable groups divided the proceeds deal emphasizes the allotment of something piece by piece.deal out equipment and supplies dole out implies a carefully measured portion of something that is often in short supply.doled out what little food there was before the 12th century |