Talk:business deal

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business deal

"An instance of buying or selling." I think (i) this isn't a perfect definition, since other deals can potentially occur in business (e.g. cross-licensing) and (ii) as any kind of deal done for business purposes, it's sum of parts. Equinox ◑ 00:57, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Wow. It's been here since 2002! And no translation table.

More common Noun-Noun collocations at COCA are budget deal, peace deal, book deal. Also common there are record deal, plea deal, package deal, trade deal, land deal, drug deal, sweetheart deal, movie deal, real estate deal, endorsement deal, arms deal. How do we pick the ones that we pick? It is obviously not frequency in print and other media. DCDuring TALK 01:50, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

We should have drug deal, because there is an implicit understanding that it only refers to illegal drugs, and sweetheart deal because it doesn't involve an actual sweetheart. I would delete business deal as SOP, and not have trade deal, land deal, movie deal, real estate deal, or endorsement deal. bd2412 T 13:06, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

On second thought, we should have movie deal, as it can refer very specifically to a deal in which an actor agrees to star in a certain number of movies. bd2412 T 13:45, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

re: drug deal: Pfizer In 4 1/2-Year Accord: Drug Deal May Be Worth $117 Million. Boston Globe.

re: movie deal: Or it could mean any of a number of other things, relating to the script, production, finance, or distribution. I guess we could have each kind of deal because, after all, how would someone not in the industry know which one was meant, except from context. DCDuring TALK 15:26, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Regarding the Pfizer article, that would be the SOP meaning of drug deal, which is no different than if companies enter into a "computer parts deal" or an "aluminum deal". As for the different meanings of movie deal, it seems that the primary meanings are 1) for an actor to agree to star in a set number of pictures for a studio, 2) for a studio to coem to an agreement to make a movie out of some oter source material, such as a book, a play, or someone's life story; and 3) a coupon or similar bargain for the purchase of tickets to see movies. bd2412 T 17:01, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Delete, sigh. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:06, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Delete SOP. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 01:12, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Delete business deal only. DAVilla 00:23, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Deleted. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 08:24, 14 September 2012 (UTC)