Definition of deal 1 in English English dictionary
emphasis If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it. a great deal of money I am in a position to save you a good deal of time. Deal is also an adverb. Their lives became a good deal more comfortable He depended a great deal on his wife for support. Deal is also a pronoun. Although he had never met Geoffrey Hardcastle, he knew a good deal about him