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cut a deal

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to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase We managed to cut a deal with the landlord in which we will be allowed to adopt a furry friend in exchange for an increase in rent.

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Recent Examples of cut a deal Early employees of that company, prosecutors said, were assured that Thao had already cut a deal to buy hundreds of housing units from them. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 31 July 2026 Backers will need to tell Senate Majority Leader John Thune soon whether their bill is ready for the floor as crypto negotiators race to cut a deal on their own bill. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 23 July 2026 Merely because the Founders had to cut a deal to achieve an imperfect outcome does not bind the citizenry to abide by it for eternity. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026 However, their anti-tank and anti-air systems failed to make a decisive difference after the Shah of Iran suddenly yanked out Iran’s decisive support from under them and cut a deal with Baghdad, crushing Kurdish morale in the process. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for cut a deal

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