New Deal

American  

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.

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New Deal British  

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)

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New Deal Cultural  

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.

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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

Etymology

Origin of New Deal

1830–35, as political catchphrase during the Jackson presidency

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Example Sentences

The Rural New Deal lays out a far-ranging platform to rebuild the nation’s economically embattled small farms, revitalize rural towns, invest in community infrastructures, fund rural health care and schools, and other urgent priorities.

From Salon

The claimed targets included a Brutalist structure that houses the Department of Housing and Urban Development and two buildings that contain historically important murals inside that were commissioned during the New Deal era.

From The Wall Street Journal

To be sure, the vast expansion of the interstate commerce power since the New Deal has also resulted in an increase in the number of federal crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim.

From The Wall Street Journal

When the New Deal put a cop on the Wall Street beat, Dillon cleaned up his act and lived long enough to outlast the memory of his tawdry methods.

From The Wall Street Journal

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