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New Deal

New Deal

30 4.4
A set of government programs in the 1930s in the United States to fight the Great Depression
  • noun
  • /nuː dɪl/
translation icon : New Deal
  • Several books discuss the New Deal in the various states.
  • Roosevelt's New Deal
  • New Deal liberalism
  • New Deal programs

Build Back Better will be essentially the new Deal for this new generation.

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Examples

  • But the New Deal can step in and provide relief.

  • Two books include perceptive discussions of the impact of New Deal agricultural programs on the South: Pete Daniel.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Oh, is this part of the new deal?

  • There is a sense in which the New Deal is the issue in this election.

    Blog text (4)
  • In many ways, Justice White was the last of the New Deal liberals.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Some argue that the New Deal saved the capitalist system.

  • The question is, how was Franklin Franklin Roosevelt able to create this New Deal coalition?

  • Blacks switched to the Democratic Party in the 1930s based on the promises of the New Deal.

  • Mayor Moore's policy delayed the impact of the New Deal on Philadelphia politics.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The New Deal was implemented to provide financial assistance and job opportunities during the Great Depression.

Surface Forms

New Deal singular
New Deals plural

Morphology

new + deal

As a capitalized proper name, "New Deal" refers to a specific historical, large-scale set of government reforms under F.D.R.; the constituents 'new' + 'deal' only suggest a recent agreement or policy initiative and do not by themselves convey the specialized historical/political scope. A B1 learner who knows the words would get a vague sense of a 'new policy/agreement' but not the full, culturally specific meaning, so the expression is partially but not fully transparent.

Etymology

New Deal comes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's promise in the 1930s of 'a new deal'—like getting a fresh deal of cards to have a new start. So New Deal became the name for his set of government programs to fight the Great Depression.