square deal

1. 1.

   fair treatment

   Synonymsfair deal

   Broaderdeal

Questions about square deal

What does square deal mean?

square deal means "fair treatment".

What is another word for square deal?

Close synonyms include fair deal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is square deal a common word?

square deal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.