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Dealing   /dˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Dealing

noun
1.
Method or manner of conduct in relation to others.
2.
The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities).  Synonyms: dealings, transaction.  "He has always been honest is his dealings with me"



Deal

verb
(past & past part. dealt; pres. part. dealing)
1.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: address, cover, handle, plow, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
2.
Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes.  Synonyms: consider, look at, take.  "Consider the following case"
3.
Take action with respect to (someone or something).  "The teacher knew how to deal with these lazy students"
4.
Come to terms with.  Synonyms: contend, cope, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage.  "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
5.
Administer or bestow, as in small portions.  Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out.  "Dole out some money" , "Shell out pocket money for the children" , "Deal a blow to someone" , "The machine dispenses soft drinks"
6.
Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.  Synonyms: sell, trade.  "The brothers sell shoes"
7.
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.  Synonyms: care, handle, manage.  "This blender can't handle nuts" , "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
8.
Behave in a certain way towards others.
9.
Distribute cards to the players in a game.
10.
Direct the course of; manage or control.  Synonyms: carry on, conduct.
11.
Give out as one's portion or share.  Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, portion out, share.
12.
Give (a specific card) to a player.
13.
Sell.



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"Dealing" Quotes from Famous Books



... encouragement held out by the Dutch government to induce them to settle in their American possessions. On the contrary, having formally rejected their petition, they thereby secured themselves against all suspicion of dealing unfairly by those who afterwards landed at Cape Cod. It is to be hoped, therefore, that even for the credit of the Pilgrims, the idle tale will not ...
— Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam • John S. C. Abbott

... Tilda, as the reader knows, more credit than she deserved; but from this may be deduced a sound moral—that the value of probity, as an asset in dealing, is quite incalculable.] ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... endeavored to speak plainly and to the point in dealing with quacks and quackery, because it is a topic of sovereign importance and urgency. Hundreds upon hundreds of our population are plundered and poisoned by these medical pests of society, and if we have not made it plain that it is ...
— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

... for in each case we should increase the electromotive force and close up, as it were, the equipotential surfaces beyond the limit of resistance. Of course this limit of resistance varies with every dielectric; but we are now dealing only with air at ordinary pressures. It appears from the experiments of Drs. Warren De La Rue and Hugo Muller that the electromotive force determining disruptive discharge in air is about 40,000 volts per centimeter, except for very ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various

... he cried, dealing Kirkland a blow on the head with his keys, that stretched him senseless. "There's more trouble with you bloody aristocrats ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke


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