deal in
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Also, deal with . Be occupied or concerned with, as in Jim deals in generalities , or This book deals with idioms . The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from about 1300.
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Do business or trade in something, as in They deal in diamonds . [Late 1500s] Also see deal with .
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deal someone in . Also, deal one a hand . Include someone, give someone a share, as in I hope they'll deal me in on this new enterprise . This usage comes from card games, where to deal has meant “to distribute cards” since the 16th century. [Early 1900s]
Example Sentences
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Perhaps he could announce that, in his final two years as President, he will push hard for a deal in Congress to let them stay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Indeed, a deal in the coming days that ends the fighting in the Middle East could stop an economically damaging global central-bank hiking cycle, which could protect equities, Brooks said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
"A ban is more self-enforcing because you have involved the private sector and it becomes commercially unviable for them to deal in settlement goods," Stober says.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It signed a deal in July with Microsoft to provide AI computing capacity while offering Mistral models directly to the US tech giant's clients.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
“I deal in futures, not hypothetical,” she tells me, almost insulted that I asked.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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