Deal
Deal verb - To carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property.
Elect
Elect verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
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The Kranks, along with their entire neighborhood, have always made a huge deal of celebrating Christmas with decorations and parties, but after their daughter leaves and they realize they spent over $6,000 last year to celebrate, this year they elect to go on a cruise in the Caribbean instead.
Source: Film / Christmas with the Kranks - This includes blowing up the Hidden Securitron Bunker, which is absolutely vital to the plan or if you elect not to deal with certain potentially troublesome factions.
Source: My Master, Right or Wrong
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