Cause for a handshake

The answer

DEAL

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DEAL answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for DEAL

Every other clue in this collection answered by DEAL, most used first.

• Transaction - used 62 times, most recently in 2025
• Bargain - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
• Pass out cards - used 44 times, most recently in 2026
• Business transaction - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "Agreed!" - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• Give a hand? - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Start a hand - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Good buy - used 22 times, most recently in 2022
• "You're on!" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Do business - used 21 times, most recently in 2014
• Start a card game - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Hand out cards - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• "Let's Make a __" - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
• Agreement - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Hand out hands - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Business agreement - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Distribute cards - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Fir or pine board - used 13 times, most recently in 1993
• "Let's shake on it!" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Negotiation goal - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Distribute the cards - used 10 times, most recently in 2019
• Cope - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Arrangement - used 8 times, most recently in 2000
• Business arrangement - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Give everyone a hand? - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Negotiator's goal - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Word with a handshake - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Pine board. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Wheel's partner - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Bargain hunter's goal - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Cope (with) - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Do business (with) - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
• Give out cards - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• Change for a five - ONES, used 272 times
• "What's ___ for me?" - INIT, used 264 times
• Shrek, for one - OGRE, used 244 times
• Ready for business - OPEN, used 184 times
• Look for - SEEK, used 172 times

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