new dealn.
/ˌnjuː ˈdiːl/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˈdil/ 1. The dealing of cards afresh at the start of a new game, rubber, etc.; a redeal.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > fresh deal
new deal1746
redeal1829
mayonnaise1926
goulash1927
1746 E. Hoyle Whist (ed. 6) 10 A new Deal is to be call'd.
1830 J. Neal Authorship xxi. 242 It was a good lesson to me sir—beginning to shuffle the cards, for a new deal—I have never forgotten it.
1839 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. June 608 Publicly addressing their injured competitors a proposition to submit the matter to another election, as the gambler vociferates for a new deal.
1905 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (1910) 12 If the dealer's partner make the trump declaration without receiving permission from the dealer, the eldest hand may demand..that there shall be a new deal.
1994 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 20 May 7 b If this were a poker hand, the proper response would be to fold and await a new deal.
2. figurative.
a. colloquial (originally U.S.). A fresh start, esp. with a view to reform or betterment; new arrangements or conditions.The original association of this sense with card-playing is now often less obvious than connections with the later development of deal n.2 in relation to the transaction of business.In later use also frequently with overtones of sense 2b.
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1834 in M. James Andrew Jackson (1937) ii. xvii. 376 A new bank and a New Deal.
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. 62 Folks thought a new deal now would give 'em more fair play.
1863 J. Sherman in R. S. Thorndike Sherman Lett. (1894) 205 The war is prolonged, and but little chance of its ending until we have a new deal.
1899 W. J. Kountz Billy Baxter's Lett. 3 They asked me to go with them. It was [a] new deal for me, so of course I was for it.
1908 H. James Princess Casamassima (N.Y. ed.) II. xxxiv. 199 I'm one of those who believe that a great new deal [1886 a great social cataclysm] is destined to take place.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 38 863 The election of Roosevelt means not a rebirth of the Democratic party, but a desperate attempt to secure an immediate new deal by any means.
1957 F. Clune Fortune Hunters 138 A new deal for the Australian blacks is coming up fast.
1999 Earth Matters Spring 2/1 As peace breaks out, I ask if this is the beginning of a new deal for the environment.
b. U.S. History. Usually in form New Deal. The programme of social and economic reform planned by the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1932 onwards to counteract the effects of the Great Depression, involving a massive programme of public works and the large-scale granting of loans.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > specific approaches to reform or social betterment
new frontier1912
new deal1932
fair deal1949
1932 F. D. Roosevelt in N.Y. Times 3 July i. 8/7 I pledge you—I pledge myself—to a new deal for the American people.
1932 S. Chase (title) A new deal.
1933 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 27 833 If Professor Tugwell's volume fairly represents the thought of the New Deal, we have gone a long way beyond the New Freedom.
1940 H. G. Wells New World Order 61 The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America.
1965 Listener 24 June 947/3 As a member of the New Deal team his position was in the highest degree anomalous.
1995 M. Lind Next Amer. Nation ii. 83 The new, bureaucratic welfare state created in the New Deal.
c. Usually in form New Deal. In the U.K.: a government scheme introduced in 1998 to provide work or training for young people unemployed for over six months. Cf. welfare-to-work n. at welfare n. Phrases.The scheme was later extended to cover other groups of people not in employment.
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society > occupation and work > working > career > [noun] > training or preparation schemes
work–study1924
work experience1967
exposure1968
shadowing1976
work shadowing1976
Youth Opportunities Programme1977
YOP1978
job shadowing1979
Youth Training Scheme1981
YTS1984
new deal1995
1994 K. Mayhew & E. Keep (title of Employment Policy Institute Report) Skilling the jobless: time for a new deal?]
1995 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 9 Nov. Mr Brown will unveil Labour's New Deal for under 25s at a joint press conference with David Blunkett, the party's education and employment spokesman, later today.
1997 Eastern Eye 14 Feb. 6/4 Labour's New Deal for the Lost Generation guarantees every young person under 25 the chance of a job in the private sector, work in the voluntary sector, full-time education or a place on a new environmental task force.
2001 Pride Sept. 147/1 New Deal for Lone Parents is delivered by local Jobcentres, and aims to help parents look at the range of opportunities and jobs available.
Derivatives
new ˈdealer n. (usually in form New Dealer) a person who advocates, participates in, or is associated with a new deal (esp. in sense 2b).
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > specific approaches to reform or social betterment > supporter
fair dealer1529
new dealer1876
Fair Dealer1949
1876 Chicago Tribune 7 Aug. 1/6 The ‘New-Dealers’ appointed a committee to confer with the old State Central Committee.
1934 Amer. Mercury June 246/2 Fifty New Dealers who are helping the President make the country laugh.
1955 Times 3 Aug. 9/6 He ousts the ‘new dealer’, Malenkov, and re-directs Russian economy towards heavy industry.
1967 D. L. Thomas Plungers & Peacocks xi. 242 Kennedy..had ingratiated himself at the same time with the New Dealers.
1999 Hull Daily Mail (Electronic ed.) 8 Jan. New Dealers have been working hard in a scheme which will see about 15 landscaping projects carried out all over the East Riding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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