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There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in every thing else, and therefore you should make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.
There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.
1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!:
“They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
a. 1740, Thomas Tickell, “An Epistle from a lady in England to a gentleman at Avignon”, in Charles Churchil, editor, The Poetical Works of Churchill, Parnell, and Tickell: With a Life of Each, published 1880, page 51:
Mr. Brownlow contrived to state his case; observing that, in the surprise of the moment, he had run after the boy because he saw him running away; and expressing his hope that, if the magistrate should believe him, although not actually the thief, to be connected with thieves; he would deal as leniently with him as justice would allow.
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The deal, which overtakes the £50m paid to Liverpool by Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011 as the highest paid by a British club, takes United’s summer spend to £130.7m, following the £27m spent on Luke Shaw, the £28m for Ander Herrera and £16m for Marcos Rojo.
(in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.
2009 July 20, Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times:
California lawmakers, their state broke and its credit rating shot, finally sealed the deal with the governor Monday night on a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap.
I've never killed anybody before. I don't see what's the big deal.
(slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
What's her deal?
1990, National Archives and Records Administration, quoting Bill Clinton, George Bush: 1992-1993, page 1861:
His whole deal is, you've got to be for it or against it, and you can't make it better.
2006 February 6, “Dr. Boy”, in ELLEgirl:
My boyfriend hates it when I wear makeup or put on a short skirt, but then he points out how hot girls like the Pussycat Dolls are. What's his deal? —Jill, 16, Fresno, CA
2017 April 11, Amber Portwood, Never Too Late, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
I don't know what her deal was. I think she just cared about the MTV stuff and wanted to be around us, maybe hoping a camera would show up and she'd get her face on the color TV or something.
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A brisk fire burned in the grate, there were three comfortable chairs, and a deal table with a water carafe, a bucket of coals, and a few other amenities.
(countable,archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
1819, Charles Pope, Practical abridgement of the laws of customs and excise, 5th edition, page CCXLIII:
It shall not be lawful for any person to land any timber, planks or board, deals, staves, tar, pitch, turpentine, rozin or other the commodities aforesaid, on any part of the present quays within the city of Bristol, from any vessel coming into the said port...
1840, John Ramsey McCulloch, “Docks on the Thames (London)”, in A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, volume 1, Thomas Wardle, page 590:
Swedish deals from ports in the Baltic
2003, François Cardarelli, Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights, and Measures, page 52:
She glanced round the kitchen. It was small and curious to her, with its glittering kissing-bunch, its evergreens behind the pictures, its wooden chairs and little deal table.
Quelques jours après l’assassinat d’un homme sous les yeux de son fils de 8 ans, le quartier semble à l’arrêt sans qu’aucune solution pérenne ne se dessine pour lutter contre les violences liées au deal. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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