deal
‘a great deal’ and ‘a good deal’
A great deal or a good deal of something is a lot of it. A great deal is more common than a good deal.
There was a great deal of concern about energy shortages.
She drank a good deal of coffee with him in his office.
Be careful
These expressions can only be used with uncountable nouns. You can talk, for example, about a great deal of money, but not about ‘a great deal of apples’.
These expressions can only be used with uncountable nouns. You can talk, for example, about a great deal of money, but not about ‘a great deal of apples’.
If you do something a great deal or a good deal, you spend a lot of time doing it.
They talked a great deal.
‘deal with’
When you deal with something, you give it your attention and often solve a problem concerning it.
They learned to deal with any sort of emergency.
The past tense and -ed participle of deal is dealt /delt/.
When they had dealt with the fire, another crisis arose.
Any queries will be dealt with immediately.
If a book, speech, or film deals with a particular subject, it is concerned with it.
Chapter 2 deals with contemporary Paris.
The film deals with a strange encounter between two soldiers.