redeal

Meanings

1. 1verbtransitive or intransitive

   To hand out the cards again in a card game, usually because of a mistake or a poor first hand.

   Grammar: Can take an object (redeal the cards) or stand alone (we had to redeal).

   Patterns

   • redeal the cards
   • redeal a hand

   The dealer had to redeal the cards after he showed his hand.

   We agreed to redeal when someone found a card missing.

   She redealt the hand and the game continued.

2. 2nouncountable

   A second deal of the cards in a game, because the first was wrong or invalid.

   Grammar: Used with a: there was a redeal.

   Patterns

   • call for a redeal
   • ask for a redeal

   The players called for a redeal after the mix-up.

   A redeal is allowed if every player passes.

Word forms

Common combinations

call for a redeal

They called for a redeal after the dealer made an error.

redeal the cards

She shuffled and redealt the cards.

force a redeal

A misdeal can force a redeal.

need to redeal

We need to redeal because of the mistake.

require a redeal

The rules require a redeal.

Synonyms and how they differ

deal again

Deal again is plain English and is more common in speech, whereas redeal is the single-word form used in rules.

reshuffle

Reshuffle means to mix the cards again, which comes before a redeal but does not hand them out.

misdeal

A misdeal is the mistake that causes a redeal, not the repeat itself.

Word family

deal verb

to hand out cards to players

dealer noun

the person who deals the cards

misdeal noun

a wrong or invalid deal

dealt verb

past tense and participle of deal

Commonly confused: redeal or reshuffle?

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