shady deal

collocation in English

meaningsofshadyanddeal

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shady
adjective
uk
/ˈʃeɪ.di/us
/ˈʃeɪ.di/
sheltered from direct light from ...
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deal
noun
uk
/diːl/us
/diːl/
an agreement or an arrangement, especially ...
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(Definition ofshadyanddealfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theshadydealwill be financed partly by cutting the number of beds, cutting the number of nurses and cutting the number of doctors.
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There are so many questions to be asked about thatshadydeal.
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Having been involved in thatshadydealat the sixth session, he sits there muttering under his beard.
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His long-term interests in trading will be enhanced if he is honest and above board rather than if he is quick and sharp and doing ashadydeal.
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If someone has conducted ashadydeal, is it likely bat he will willingly allow a disgruntled customer access so as to provide him with a potential remedy?
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I therefore repudiate entirely any suggestion that there has been a deal of any sort, and even more so that there has been anyshadydeal.
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He spoke rather unkindly and unpleasantly of shady deals.
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Who knows what shady deals were stitched up of which we do not yet know?
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There was no reason for them to indulge in shady deals.
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However, it is only through greater transparency that the spectre of apparent shady deals will be banished.
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There will be no shady deals.
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It fosters a culture of ingenuity and solidarity, whilst at the same time it nurtures the soil in which all manner of shady deals find sustenance.
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The third act of the film examines the shady deals that destroyed this thriving market and the great loss suffered by thousands of poor people.
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He often gets into reckless arguments and shady deals.
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He unearths the shady deals of his sisters husband and reforms him and puts his sisters life on track.
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These people believed that an afternoons participation in the procession can repent their sins and shady deals in a year.
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