deal breaker

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deal breaker (plural deal breakers)

  1. An issue which causes a relationship (especially in business) to fail.
    • 2004, Mark A. Williams, Your Identity Zones: Who Am I? Who Are You? How Do We Get Along?, page 294:
      Sometimes the process of digging uncovered a deal breaker.
    • 2023 July 22, Barbara Speed, “‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on its head”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      For Rosie, Carl’s attitude isn’t a deal breaker—not even close. It’s just a product of the bizarre wealth imbalances that the housing market is creating among young people.

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