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The art of making exchange feel like victory for everyone who isn't you.
means The act of conducting business or negotiating transactions with someone — or, in the plural, the pattern of one's conduct or relations with others.
from From 'deal,' traced back to Old English 'dǣlan' meaning to divide or distribute, itself rooted in the Germanic word for 'part' or 'portion' (related to 'dole,' a share doled out). The sense evolved from literally dividing something up among people to the broader notion of doing business — because every transaction, at bottom, is just deciding who gets which part.
- card origin
- from dealing cards, one at a time
- drug slang
- euphemism since the 1930s underworld
- double meaning
- handling problems and handling transactions, same verb
- ongoing dealings
- implies relationship, not one-time transaction