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sweetheart deal

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  • noun idiomatic, business A transaction, contract, or other agreement in which one party provides particularly favorable terms to the other, especially in suspicious circumstances.

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  • sweetheart deal, n.

    The Guardian, 22 January 2016:

    People will be “sceptical” about what he said looked like a “sweetheart deal”, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday, adding that HMRC seemed to have settled for a “relatively trivial amount of money.”

    February 2, 2016