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NEW DEAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("new deal" is a kind of...):
deal (the act of apportioning or distributing something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("New Deal" is a kind of...):
economic policy (a government policy for maintaining economic growth and tax revenues)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The historic period (1933-1940) in the United States during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)