deals (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of deal (out)
as in distributes
to give out (something) to appropriate individuals aid workers dealt out a packet of emergency supplies to each earthquake victim

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deals (out)
  1. distributes
  2. dispenses
  3. provides
  4. hands out
  5. divides
  6. supplies
  7. allocates
Verb
  • The farm, based in Ramona in San Diego County, distributes its eggs to restaurants, grocery stores and farmers markets across California, including the Central Coast and Bay Area.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Additionally, Southwest books complimentary hotels and ground transport for passengers with overnight delays and distributes meal vouchers for passengers waiting for three hours or more.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of distributes
Verb
  • The product comes with a double pump that dispenses two crepiness-tackling solutions.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Every day, Hy-Vee pharmacy manager Erin Jensen dispenses prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs, the weight-loss medications that have more than tripled in popularity in the last two years in the United States.
    — Israel Schuman, Des Moines Register, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispenses
Verb
  • Five original murals by Naples artist Janine Wesselmann celebrate the city's social traditions, while a baby grand piano provides the soundtrack most evenings beneath gilded ceilings.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform, launched on Monday, provides a containment system that only allows access to things an agent needs to do its job.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of provides
Verb
  • Felton, like Saputra, regularly hands out experimental dishes to dedicated regulars in exchange for uncensored critiques.
    — Sam Flemming, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Texas hands out billions in tax abatements and incentives to mega-corporations that often fail to deliver lasting benefits to local communities.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of hands out
Verb
  • But these genes still get copied every time the bacterium divides, and copying DNA costs energy.
    — Canan Karakoç, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Some may occur randomly when a cell divides and replicates its DNA.
    — MD Published, Verywell Health, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of divides
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  • As the company explains, ANYbotics supplies the autonomous mobile robot, LEGIC provides the secure digital credential technology, and dormakaba handles access management and door automation.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The data may tell most of the story, but the person often supplies the rest.
    — Sunil Padiyar, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of supplies
Verb
  • In a report on the outage published on Friday, NATS said a software defect in the National Airspace System, which allocates codes so air traffic controllers can identify flights on radar, was behind the decision to ax the flights.
    — Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In the absence of a system for shifting the funding to other grants, though, this runs the risk of leaving the NIH unable to spend all the money Congress allocates to it (which may well be Vought’s intention).
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of allocates
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“Deals (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deals%20%28out%29. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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