From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdeal something ↔ out phrasal verb1 DGCto give playing cards to each of the players in a game I began dealing out the cards.2 GIVEto decide what kind of punishment someone will get → deal→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
deal out• Competitive tendering is a system whereby contracts are awarded to the supplier who offers the best deal.• After the video deal I came out here.• Sonya liked to play Patience, dealing the cards out herself.• Most of the deal was carried out in New York and this contributed to an air of confusion in the music press.• If some one dealt drugs out of the apartment next door, residents could complain-but the system rarely responded.• The deal, worked out over Christmas, sheds about £ 20m from the cost of Cubie's proposals.• And the deals are out there as well.• Somebody just dealt him out, up in the Pup Club. 