NEW DEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Deal mean? 

• NEW DEAL (noun)
  The noun NEW DEAL has 3 senses:

1. the economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt

2. the historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented

3. a reapportioning of something

  Familiarity information: NEW DEAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW DEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("New Deal" is a kind of...):

economic policy (a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A reapportioning of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("new deal" is a kind of...):

deal (the act of apportioning or distributing something)