sweetheart deal
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sweetheart 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[edit]
transaction, 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.