square deal
noun
a fair and honest arrangement or transaction.
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Square Deal
Square Dealnounthe stated policy of President Theodore Roosevelt, originally promising fairness in all dealings with labor and management and later extended to include other groups.
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U.S. History.
square deal
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Etymology
Origin of square deal
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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"We will resist that and our members, along with the entire trade union movement will continue their campaign for a square deal for workers, decent pay increases and good working conditions."
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2022
“Haven’t I given you a square deal, Miss Goldman?”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
“I will apply the law faithfully and fearlessly and without regard to persons. … Any law is going to get a fair and square deal with me.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
“Anyone, any law, is going to get a fair and square deal with me,” Gorsuch said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2017
It had never given me a square deal.
From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
Square Deal for Callaghan and Prat is the favorite at 7-2.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
What they want to see, he said, is “like a combination of Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, the Square Deal and the New Deal.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2018
“Mankind is hardwired to work,” as the Conservative MP Nick Boles puts it in a new book, Square Deal.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018
His call, in his book Square Deal, echoes those being made by Labour ahead of 22 November's Budget.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2017
And I guess the God of a Square Deal was with me that day, for I found the water.
From The Long Chance by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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