DEAL Synonyms

• an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

• an advantageous purchase

• negotiate the terms of an exchange

• come to terms; arrive at an agreement

• a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

• enter into a contractual arrangement

• engage by written agreement

• squeeze or press together

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• become smaller or draw together

• make smaller

• compress or concentrate

• make or become more narrow or restricted

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

• the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• compatibility of observations

• harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters

• the thing arranged or agreed to

• the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

• the verbal act of agreeing

• the thing arranged or agreed to

• an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• the spatial property of the way in which something is placed

• a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments

• the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

• closely and firmly united or packed together

• a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

• a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

• a small and economical car

• having a short and solid form or stature

• briefly giving the gist of something

• have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

• compress into a wad

• make more compact by or as if by pressing

• squeeze or press together

• a middle way between two extremes

• an accommodation in which both sides make concessions

• make a compromise; arrive at a compromise

• settle by concession

• expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute

• chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another

• a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)

• the act of changing one thing for another thing

• the act of giving something in return for something received

• a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

• a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)

• the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:

• (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop

• (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value

• give to, and receive from, one another

• exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

• change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence

• hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent

• put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

• exchange a penalty for a less severe one

• a discussion intended to produce an agreement

• the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

• the trade of a funeral director

• (Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a parcel of land having fixed boundaries

• an unofficial association of people or groups

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random

• any collection in its entirety

• divide into lots, as of land, for example

• administer or bestow, as in small portions

• all the loaves of bread baked at the same time

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a collection of things or persons to be handled together

• batch together; assemble or process as a batch

• a church congregation guided by a pastor

• a group of birds

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• an orderly crowd

• a group of sheep or goats

• move as a crowd or in a group

• come together as in a cluster or flock

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• as many or as much as a hat will hold

• a collection of objects laid on top of each other

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a car that is old and unreliable

• bestow in large quantities

• arrange in stacks

• fill to overflow

• (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

• the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

• a musical setting for a Mass

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

• an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

• a body of matter without definite shape

• the common people generally

• the property of something that is great in magnitude

• formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

• join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

• a state of confusion and disorderliness

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• soft semiliquid food

• a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

• a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• eat in a mess hall

• make a mess of or create disorder in