Deal and Issue

Deal

Deal verb - To carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property.

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Issue and deal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Issue" instead a verb "Deal".

Nearby Words: dealing, dealer, dealt

Issue verb - To produce and release for distribution in printed form.

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Deal and issue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Deal" instead a verb "Issue".

Nearby Words: issued, issuing, issuance, issuer

old	old deal	old issue
special	special deal	special issue
similar	similar deal	similar issue
standard	standard deal	standard issue
Other adjectives: original, single, actual, entire, real, big, serious, huge, little, main, important, major, final, next, last, recent, earlier, previous, bigger, biggest.

ability	deal ability	issue ability
kind	deal kind	issue kind
thanks	deal thanks	issue thanks
amount	deal amount	issue amount
Other words: system, time, times.

Similarly, almost every Elsa/Anna fanfic set in the series' canon has to deal with the issue of Elsa needing to get married.

Source: Fandom Specific Plo T / Animated Film
In one issue of The Maze Agency, Gabe is ecstatic when he signs a deal to publish a paperback collection of his lurid true crime articles.

Source: Instant Book Deal
If renaming could help but there's another, better way to deal with the issue, that's still a good reason to try that way instead.

Source: Administrivia / Everything You Wanted to Know About Changing Names

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