Cut
Cut verb - Be able to manage or manage successfully.
Usage example: she could not cut the long days in the office
Deal
Deal verb - To carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property.
How words are described
| old | old cut | old deal |
| good | good cut | good deal |
| full | full cut | full deal |
| nice | nice cut | nice deal |
| Other adjectives: best, long, similar, complete, standard, original, single, rough, small, actual, large, huge, little, bad, potential, important, next, last, earlier, bigger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Then Mustaine offered him what was apparently an absolutely awful deal and cut off all contact with him when he attempted to negotiate a better one.
Source: Music / Megadeth -
Averted in the alternate version used for the Spider Man 2.1 cut where the guy assumes it's the real deal and tries to bring up new advertising techniques.
Source: Mistaken for an Imposter - While it's not the first cut, Ted from How I Met Your Mother has to eventually admit that being left at the altar gave him some serious emotional baggage to deal with.
Source: The First Cut Is the Deepest
Cite this Source
Deal and Cut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/deal
Cut & Deal. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/deal>.
Deal or Cut. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/deal.
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