New Deal

noun

: the legislative and administrative program of President F. D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
also : the period of this program
New Dealer noun
New Dealish adjective
New Dealism noun

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It was designed to limit the power of individual judges to halt New Deal programs and had the effect of streamlining the appeals process. Scott Neuman, NPR, 27 June 2025 Its editor, Col. Robert R. McCormick, had long waged a verbal war against Josef Stalin’s Communism and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025 Buckley’s genius was to see that, from the New Deal to the Cold War, American conservatives had bent themselves into timid naysayers. Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 Ocasio-Cortez, then 29, ran on an unapologetically progressive platform that included support for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal and tuition-free public college. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for New Deal

Word History

Etymology

from the supposed resemblance to the situation of freshness and equality of opportunity afforded by a fresh deal in a card game

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of New Deal was in 1932

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“New Deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/New%20Deal. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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