sweetheart deal
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Noun
editsweetheart deal (plural sweetheart deals)
- (idiomatic, business) A transaction, contract, or other agreement in which one party provides particularly favorable terms to the other, especially in suspicious circumstances.
- 1986 May 18, Ronald Sullivan, “Counsel Upholds Lease in Dispute on East Side”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Oct. 2008:
- Steven Matthews, described the lease last week as "a sweetheart deal that gives too much away for what the city gets in return."
Translations
edittransaction, contract, or other agreement in which one party provides particularly favorable terms to the other
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References
edit- “sweetheart deal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.