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"deal" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often settlement (10 letters).
Definitions
Arrangement; bargain; handle
Word origin
From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).
Used in a sentence
“We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.”
“There is a vast deal of difference in memories, as well as in every thing else, and therefore you should make allowance for your cousin, and pity her deficiency.”
“There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer10 curated clues
01“Bargain”4 letters
02“Agreement at a table”4 letters
03“Agreement in business”4 letters
04“Agreement or bargain”4 letters
05“Bargain or agreement”4 letters
06“Business agreement”4 letters
07“Business arrangement”4 letters
08“Cards distribution”4 letters
09“Trade arrangement”4 letters
10“Agreement or arrangement”4 letters
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