(entertainment industry) An agreement made between a studio or network (or other similar entity) and a person, such as an actor, producer or writer, to hold the person to be exclusive to that entity for an agreed upon period of time, usually one year or "season", for an agreed-upon amount of money.

To work as an intermediary, making a profit from by buying and selling things, or making contracts between parties.

(proscribed) simple past tense and past participle of wheel and deal

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheel and deal

(idiomatic) To assign circumstances in life to someone.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deal a hand

fir tree

plural of deal tree

Synonym of raw deal

(Canada, US, slang) Synonym of raw deal