New Dealer
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- noun
- /njuː ˈdiːlər/
- Archaic
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neodealista
- My mother, grandmother, and great-aunt were news junkies and devoted New Dealers.
- a prominent New Dealer
And so FDR and the New Dealers, they didn't just create new Social Security programs like Social Security itself, but they also built in the physical world.
- And so FDR and the New Dealers, they didn't just create new Social Security programs like Social Security itself, but they also built in the physical world.
Examples
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His father was a New Dealer, but not a Communist, and not a Republican either, according to Nora.
Fiction book (1999) -
It says that the common good can be sought positively, as the New Dealers hoped.
Academic text (1992) -
The New Dealers believed that the Depression resulted from underconsumption.
Academic text (1999) -
This very question was hotly debated among New Dealers and labor leaders in the 1930s, and again after the all-hands-on-deck wartime period.
Academic text (2018) -
The New Dealers who embraced the tendency of higher labor standards to destroy some jobs also urged the adoption of an "active manpower policy," including investments in "retraining and education... and public employment," so that displaced workers did not bear the burden of these shifts.
Academic text (2018) -
Many New Dealers played a crucial role in shaping America's social safety nets during the 1930s.
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As a leading New Dealer, he advocated for policies that promoted job creation and economic recovery.
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She proudly identified as a New Dealer, reflecting her commitment to the reforms of the Roosevelt administration.
Surface Forms
Morphology
new + Dealer
The meaning 'supporter or associate of the New Deal' depends on recognizing the proper name 'New Deal' (Roosevelt's policies) rather than compositional senses of 'new' + 'dealer'. A B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would likely infer 'a new dealer' (a recently established seller) or similar literal readings, so the historical/political sense is not derivable from the parts.
Etymology
New Dealer comes from the 1930s when President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a set of government programs called the New Deal. People who backed those programs were called New Dealers, so the name means 'a person who supported the New Deal'.