New Deal

noun

1. the principles of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, especially those advocated under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for economic recovery and social reforms.

2. the domestic program of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, especially during the period from 1933 to 1941.

New Deal

noun

1. the domestic policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt for economic and social reform

2. the period of the implementation of these policies (1933–40)

New Deal

1. A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression. The projects of the New Deal included the Social Security System, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Works Progress Administration.

The New Deal remains controversial. Some have criticized it as too expensive and have called it an inadvisable expansion of federal control over the American economy. Others have insisted that the New Deal was an appropriate response to desperate conditions and produced programs of continuing value.

Other Word Forms

• New Dealer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of New Deal¹

1830–35, as political catchphrase during the Jackson presidency

Example Sentences

It’s the National Labor Relations Board, created in 1935 as a quintessential New Deal regulatory agency.

From Los Angeles Times

For Lawrence — whose personal journey would transform him from New Deal liberalism to solid Republican conservatism — a scientific lab was no place for anything but pure science, uninfected by politics.

From Los Angeles Times

The shock troops of DOGE, at the Social Security Administration and myriad other federal agencies, were the advance guard in perhaps the most dramatic transformation of the U.S. government since the New Deal.

From Salon

He’s on record as supporting the Green New Deal and universal health insurance, and spoke alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders when the progressive icon’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour came to Southern California.

From Salon

During the Great Depression, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., a Hoover creation that lived well into Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, took preferred shares in numerous impaired banks in return for capital infusions they needed to survive.

From Los Angeles Times

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