Word Finder - deal

definition

A division, a portion, a share.

example

We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.

definition

(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).

synonyms

• batch
• flock
• good deal
• great deal
• hatful
• heap
• load
• lot
• mass
• mess
• mickle
• mint
• muckle
• peck
• pile
• plenty
• pot
• quite a little
• raft
• sight
• slew
• spate
• stack
• tidy sum
• wad
• whole lot
• whole slew

It meant a good deal to him to secure a home like this.

She'd deal with him later.

One has to know how to deal with them.

After a great deal of tinkering and trying, they did succeed in making two paddle wheels.

We cannot deal with equations that big—but a computer will solve for that in a minute if it has enough data.

I was just wondering how to deal with the insurance company when the seller is the owner.

I didn't hire him and I have no idea what deal you are talking about.

Had Allen been here to make a drug deal with Giddon?

I can deal with the mess in my head.

You are only a very little boy, and you will learn a great deal as you grow bigger.

I want a great deal, Count!

Here's the deal, guys and girl.

The more Damian dealt with them, the less he wanted to deal with them again.

Some perp thinks Youngblood is the real deal; the Psychic Tipster, so he cuts him up like pork roast, gets to the truth, and dumps him.

The man told him he needed to get rid of me and Yancey told him he'd deal with me in his own way.

To be reminded first by a woman who should be dead and again by a Healer of some sort … He shook out his shoulders and nudged his XO awake, not wanting to deal with the thoughts.

A bad deal by a deity or its mate will ruin the universe.

These preparations had not consumed a great deal of time, but the sleeping Gargoyles were beginning to wake up and move around, and soon some of them would be hunting for their missing wings.

He had given them a great deal of trouble, and they wished to destroy him.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle.

Okay. I don't hear any deal breakers so far.

It's the best time to deal with her.

We'll deal with it.

She pushed him back down, showing him just how unprepared he was to deal with anything.

Only if you make me a deal.

What's the big deal?

Why, it's a great deal for Uncle Hugson, but not for me.

Now, Mr. Boyle was a sporting neighbor who spent a good deal of time in shooting.

When Aesop was about twenty years old his master lost a great deal of money and was obliged to sell his slaves.

To deal in generalities, plants capture, on average, about 5 percent of the solar energy that falls on their leaves.

Here, at the extreme left flank, Bennigsen talked a great deal and with much heat, and, as it seemed to Pierre, gave orders of great military importance.

You've taken a great deal off my shoulders, and I appreciate it.

If she were perfectly still, she could deal with the pain.

I made you a deal.

Darkyn's amusement at the deal made her shudder.

You made a deal for me.

I'm assuming it was because a deal went bad.

It's the only deal I ever lost that I didn't mind losing.

My deal with Zamon is complete.

I'll deal with it when it comes.

Though this news was being concealed from the inhabitants, the officials--the heads of the various government departments--knew that Moscow would soon be in the enemy's hands, just as Count Rostopchin himself knew it, and to escape personal responsibility they had all come to the governor to ask how they were to deal with their various departments.

Previously he had talked a great deal, grew excited when he talked, and seldom listened; now he was seldom carried away in conversation and knew how to listen so that people readily told him their most intimate secrets.

Molly and Betsy elected to go home leaving me to mind the store and deal with Daniel Brennan's phone call without interruption.

Certain enough to make me a deal?

Her deal with Darkyn damned her, but also saved her life.

Praying she hadn't missed some term of the deal, she waited for his reaction.

I don't want you to hurt yourself to make a deal that benefits me.

It'd make a good bargaining tool for a deal.

In either case, Deidre never put a stupid deal over the life of another suffering as she had.

She'd make him a deal.