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deal-breaker

deal-breaker is the alternative form of deal breaker.

Meaning of deal breaker

Noun

deal breaker (plural deal breakers)

  1. An issue which causes a relationship or proposal, especially in business, to fail.
    • Near-synonyms: nonnegotiable (noun), prerequisite (noun), sine qua non
    Antonyms:
    dealmaker

Forms of deal-breaker

pluraldeal-breakers

Questions about deal-breaker

What is deal-breaker the alternative form of?
Deal-breaker is the alternative form of deal breaker.

Words near deal-breaker in the dictionary

  1. deal to
  2. deal tree
  3. deal trees
  4. deal with
  5. deal with the devil
  6. deal-breaker
  7. deal-breakers
  8. deal-breakery
  9. deal-maker
  10. deal-makers
  11. deal-with-able

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deal-breaker (page history and authors); deal breaker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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