Agreement vs. Deal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Agreement and Deal
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Definitions
Agreement
Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling
The governments failed to reach agreement
The two officers nodded in agreement
Deal
To give out in shares or portions; apportion
A critic who deals out as much praise as blame.
Agreement
The act of agreeing
When did the agreement take place?.
Deal
To distribute (playing cards) among players.
Agreement
Harmony of opinion; accord
Since we are all in agreement, let's proceed.
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Deal
To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.
Agreement
An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.
Deal
To sell
Deal prescriptions.
Deal cocaine.
Agreement
A properly executed and legally binding contract.
Deal
To administer; deliver
Dealt him a blow to the stomach.
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Agreement
The writing or document embodying this contract.
Deal
To be occupied or concerned
A book that deals with the Middle Ages.
Agreement
(Grammar) Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.
Deal
To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions
Deal honestly with competitors.
Agreement
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
To enter an agreement;
The UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;
He nodded his agreement.
Deal
To take action with respect to someone or something
The committee will deal with this complaint.
Agreement
(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
Deal
(Informal) To cope
I can't deal with all of this arguing!.
Agreement
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
Deal
To do business; trade
Dealing in diamonds.
Agreement
Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
Deal
(Games) To distribute playing cards.
Agreement
An agreeable quality.
Deal
(Slang) To buy and sell drugs, especially illegally.
Agreement
State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?
Expansion and duration have this further agreement.
Deal
(Baseball) To throw a pitch.
Agreement
Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
Deal
The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.
Agreement
A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
Deal
Distribution of playing cards.
Agreement
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
There was an understanding between management and the workers
Deal
The cards so distributed; a hand.
Agreement
Compatibility of observations;
There was no agreement between theory and measurement
The results of two tests were in correspondence
Deal
The right or turn of a player to distribute the cards.
Agreement
Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
The two parties were in agreement
Deal
The playing of one hand.
Agreement
The thing arranged or agreed to;
They made arrangements to meet in Chicago
Deal
An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree
Has a great deal of experience.
Agreement
The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
Deal
An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial.
Agreement
The verbal act of agreeing
Deal
A business transaction
Struck a deal to buy a car dealership.
Deal
A legal contract
Signed a deal to play for a new team.
Deal
(Informal) A sale favorable especially to the buyer; a bargain.
Deal
(Informal) Treatment received
A raw deal.
A fair deal.
Deal
(Informal) The situation or background information regarding something
What's the deal with the new teacher?.
Deal
A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.
Deal
Such boards or planks considered as a group.
Deal
Fir or pine wood.
Deal
(obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
Deal
(often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
Deal
An act of dealing or sharing out.
Deal
(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
I didn’t have a good deal all evening.
I believe it's your deal.
Deal
A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.
Recognizing the societal deal between capital and labor regarding retirement savings
Deal
(in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
Deal
An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
He made a deal with the devil.
Deal
(informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
What's the deal here?
Their new movie is the biggest deal of the year.
I don't think that's such a big deal.
Deal
(informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.
Deal
(uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
Deal
(countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
Deal
A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
Deal
(a) Male genitalia.
He saw my deal!
Deal
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
Deal
(transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
Deal
(ambitransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
I was dealt four aces.
The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.
Deal
(transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
The boxer was dealt a blow to the head.
Deal
(baseball) To pitch.
The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.
Deal
(intransitive) To have dealings or business.
Deal
(intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
Deal
To take action; to act.
Deal
(intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
She deals in gold.
Deal
(ambitransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.
Deal
(intransitive) To be concerned with.
Deal
(intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
I can't deal with this.
Deal
Made of deal.
A plain deal table
Deal
A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Three tenth deals [parts of an ephah] of flour.
As an object of science it [the Celtic genius] may count for a good deal . . . as a spiritual power.
She was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
Deal
The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
The deal, the shuffle, and the cut.
Deal
Distribution; apportionment.
Deal
An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; - applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
Deal
The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
Deal
Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
Deal
To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; - sometimes with out.
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?
And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
The nightly mallet deals resounding blows.
Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt.
Deal
Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
Deal
To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
Deal
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.
They buy and sell, they deal and traffic.
This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels.
Deal
To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; - followed by between or with.
Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.
Deal
To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true.
Deal
To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
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.
Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
Deal
A particular instance of buying or selling;
It was a package deal
I had no further trade with him
He's a master of the business deal
Deal
An agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each;
He made a bargain with the devil
He rose to prominence through a series of shady deals
Deal
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
A batch of letters
A deal of trouble
A lot of money
He made a mint on the stock market
It must have cost plenty
Deal
A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)
Deal
Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)
Deal
The cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time;
I didn't hold a good hand all evening
He kept trying to see my hand
Deal
The type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement);
He got a good deal on his car
Deal
The act of distributing playing cards;
The deal was passed around the table clockwise
Deal
The act of apportioning or distributing something;
The captain was entrusted with the deal of provisions
Deal
Deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression;
This book deals with incest
The course covered all of Western Civilization
The new book treats the history of China
Deal
Take action with respect to (someone or something);
How are we going to deal with this problem?
The teacher knew how to deal with these lazy students
Deal
Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes;
Take the case of China
Consider the following case
Deal
Come to terms or deal successfully with;
We got by on just a gallon of gas
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
Deal
Administer or bestow, as in small portions;
Administer critical remarks to everyone present
Dole out some money
Shell out pocket money for the children
Deal a blow to someone
Deal
Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood;
She deals in gold
The brothers sell shoes
Deal
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of;
I can deal with this crew of workers
This blender can't handle nuts
She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old
Deal
Behave in a certain way towards others;
He deals fairly with his employees
Deal
Distribute to the players in a game;
Who's dealing?
Deal
Direct the course of; manage or control;
You cannot conduct business like this
Deal
Give out as one's portion or share
Deal
Give (a specific card) to a player;
He dealt me the Queen of Spades
Deal
Sell;
Deal hashish
Deal
Made of fir or pine;
A plain deal table
