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To deal in
(gcide) | Deal \Deal\, v. i.
1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards
to the players.
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2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as
distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to
traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
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They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South.
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This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other
petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More.
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3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to
manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or
with.
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Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth
his own credit with both, by pretending greater
interest than he hath in either. --Bacon.
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4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or
towards any one; to treat.
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If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he
will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson.
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5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition,
check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to
deal with.
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To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well
by servants. "Such an one deals not fairly by his own
mind." --Locke.
To deal in.
(a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as,
they deal in political matters.
(b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or
wholesaler; as, they deal in fish.
To deal with.
(a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill;
to have to do with; specifically, to trade with.
"Dealing with witches." --Shak.
(b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.
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The deacons of his church, who, to use their own
phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting
the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.
--Hawthorne.
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Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
--Gen. xxxii.
9.
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To deal in futures
(gcide) | Future \Fu"ture\, n. [Cf. F. futur. See Future, a.]
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1. Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the
future shall be as the present); collectively, events that
are to happen in time to come. "Lay the future open."
--Shak.
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2. The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of
prospective success or advancement; as, he had great
future before him.
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3. (Gram.) A future tense.
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To deal in futures, to speculate on the future values of
merchandise or stocks. [Brokers' cant]
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