{
    "term": "deal",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "deal",
            "heSheIt": "deals"
        },
        "pastSimple": "dealt",
        "pastParticiple": "dealt",
        "ingForm": "dealing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to give cards to each player in a game of cards",
            "sensetop": "deal (something) (out) (to somebody)deal somebody something",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Whose turn is it to deal?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Start by dealing out ten cards to each player.",
                    "contextForm": "deal (something) (out) (to somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He dealt me two aces.",
                    "contextForm": "deal somebody something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Games and toys"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to buy and sell illegal drugs",
            "sensetop": "deal (something)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can often see people dealing openly on the streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was sent to jail for dealing drugs to his friends."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to shock somebody/something very much; to be very harmful to somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her sudden death dealt a blow to the whole country."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to hit somebody/something",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody that they cannot change a situation so they must accept it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That's the way it is, so deal with it!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics, often in a dishonest way",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/diːl/",
                "audio": "de/deal/deal__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/diːlz/",
                "audio": "de/deal/deals__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/delt/",
                "audio": "de/deal/dealt__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/deal/dealing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/diːl/",
                "audio": "de/deal/deal__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/diːlz/",
                "audio": "de/deal/deals__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/delt/",
                "audio": "de/deal/dealt__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "de/deal/dealing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "verb Old English dǣlan ‘divide’, ‘participate’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch deel and German Teil ‘part’ (noun), also to dole. The sense ‘divide’ gave rise to ‘distribute’, hence sense 1 of the verb and 'deal somebody/​something a blow'; the sense ‘participate’ gave rise to ‘have dealings with’, hence senses 2 of the verb and 'deal with'/'deal in'."
}