deal in

1. 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.

2. Do business or trade in something, as in They deal in diamonds . [Late 1500s] Also see deal with .

3. 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

The rapper’s relocation to Utah came as part of a deal in 2021 in which his lawyers argued that “moving to Utah would keep YoungBoy out of trouble.”

From Los Angeles Times

The league signed a new 11-year $77 billion deal in August that puts its games on ESPN, NBC and Amazon, cutting out TNT, which carried games since 1989.

From Los Angeles Times

Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump’s choice for secretary of state, compared Israel’s right to carry out a ground operation in Rafah with the Allies’ war against Adolf Hitler in World War II. Also in the mix is Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who was allegedly with the president-elect this week when a Netanyahu aide told them that Israel was trying to advance a cease-fire deal in Lebanon so as to give an early foreign-policy victory to Trump.

From Slate

It features a bounty of wonderful quotes and photos of Deal in an incredible T-shirt that has the Las Vegas Raiders logo with the late Steve Albini’s face on it.

From New York Times

Ray’s team says that a share-buyback deal in 2021 in which FTX paid Binance $1.76 billion was fundamentally fraudulent, designed chiefly to “send a false signal of strength to the market” and funded largely by secretly raiding FTX customer deposits.

From Los Angeles Times

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