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The authors investigate oscillatory and asymptotic properties, in particular, the so-called properties \(A,B\), of solutions to the neutral-type higher-order nonlinear differential equation with deviated arguments \[ L_n[x(t)-p(t)x(g(t))]\pm q(t)f(x(h(t)))=0, \tag{*} \] where \(L_n\) is the \(n\)th-order disconjugate differential operator in the canonical form, the deviations \(g,h\) satisfy \(\lim_{t\to \infty}g(t)=\infty=\lim_{t\to \infty}h(t)\) and the functions \(p,q,f\) satisfy assumptions which are ``natural'' (explicitly stated in the paper) when investigating asymptotic properties of equations of the form (*). The main result are comparison theorems for properties \(A,B\) of (*), where this equation is compared with a certain simpler \(n\)th-order differential equation. In the very special case \(p(t)\equiv 0\), \(f(x)\equiv x\), \(h(t)\equiv t\), the results of the paper reduce to the usual comparison theorems for properties \(A,B\) given e.g. in the monograph of \textit{U. Elias} [Oscillation theory of two-term differential equations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (1997; Zbl 0878.34022)].