deal

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A fir or pine board cut to standard dimensions.
• noun Such boards or planks considered as a group.
• noun Fir or pine wood.
• intransitive verb To give out in shares or portions; apportion: synonym: distribute.
• intransitive verb To distribute (playing cards) among players.
• intransitive verb To give (a specific card) to a player while so distributing.
• intransitive verb To sell.
• intransitive verb To administer; deliver.
• intransitive verb To be occupied or concerned.
• intransitive verb To behave in a specified way toward another or others; have transactions.
• intransitive verb To take action with respect to someone or something.
• intransitive verb Informal To cope.
• intransitive verb To do business; trade.
• intransitive verb Games To distribute playing cards.
• intransitive verb Slang To buy and sell drugs, especially illegally.
• intransitive verb Baseball To throw a pitch.
• noun The act or a round of apportioning or distributing.
• noun Distribution of playing cards.
• noun The cards so distributed; a hand.
• noun The right or turn of a player to distribute the cards.
• noun The playing of one hand.
• noun An indefinite quantity, extent, or degree.
• noun An agreement, especially one that is mutually beneficial. synonym: agreement.
• noun A business transaction.
• noun A legal contract.
• noun Informal A sale favorable especially to the buyer; a bargain.
• noun Informal Treatment received.
• noun Informal The situation or background information regarding something.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To divide; part; separate; hence, to divide in portions; apportion; distribute, as, in card-playing, to give to each player the proper number of cards: often followed by out.
• To distribute to.
• To scatter; hurl; throw about; deliver: as, to deal out blows.
• To engage in mutual intercourse or transactions of any kind; have to do with a person or thing, or be concerned in a matter: absolutely or with with or in.
• Specifically To negotiate or make bargains; traffic or trade: with a person, in articles: as, he deals in pig-iron.
• To negotiate corruptly; make a secret agreement; conspire: with with.
• To intervene as a mediator or middleman.
• To act; behave: in a matter, with, by, or toward a person or thing.
• noun A board or plank.
• noun Wood of fir or pine, such as deals are made from: as, a floor of deal.
• noun A part; portion; share.
• noun Hence An indefinite quantity, degree, or extent: as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of snow; a deal of money. In this sense usually qualified with great or good: as, a great deal of labor; a good deal of one's time.
• noun The division or distribution of cards in playing; the act or practice of dealing; the right or privilege of distributing the cards; a single round, during which all the cards dealt at one time are played.
• noun Hence, a bargain or arrangement among a number of persons for mutual advantage as against others; a secret commercial or political transaction for the exclusive benefit of those engaged in it: as, a deal in wheat or cotton; they made a deal for the division of the offices.