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DEALT OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dealt out mean?
• DEALT OUT (adjective)
The adjective DEALT OUT has 1 sense:
1. given out in portions
Familiarity information: DEALT OUT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Given out in portions
Synonyms:
apportioned; dealt out; doled out; meted out; parceled out
Similar:
distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)
Context examples
Do you know, he skins his words as a professional poker-player skins the cards that are dealt out to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his family, and all his relations, and no niggardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whom they declared to be the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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