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DEALING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
Example:
he has always been honest is his dealings with me
Synonyms:
dealing; dealings; transaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dealing" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealing"):
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
affairs (transactions of professional or public interest)
operations; trading operations (financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records)
transfer; transference (transferring ownership)
exchange (the act of giving something in return for something received)
business deal; deal; trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)
downtick (a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction)
uptick (a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction)
borrowing (obtaining funds from a lender)
rental; renting (the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car))
Instance hyponyms:
Seward's Folly (the transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia)
Derivation:
deal (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)
deal (direct the course of; manage or control)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Method or manner of conduct in relation to others
Example:
honest dealing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dealing" is a kind of...):
handling; treatment (the management of someone or something)
Derivation:
deal (take action with respect to (someone or something))
deal (behave in a certain way towards others)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb deal
Context examples:
A question about an individual's distress related to their family problems dealing with family health issues.
(Distress over Family Problem with Family Health Issues, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp.
(Endodontics, NCI Thesaurus)
People with personality disorders have trouble dealing with everyday stresses and problems.
(Personality Disorders, NIH)
The Office of Cancer Survivorship was established in 1996 to provide support and a focus for research and other activities dealing with cancer survivors.
(Office of Cancer Survivorship, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of biology dealing with the effect of light on organisms.
(Photobiology, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of chemistry dealing with the physical properties of chemical substances.
(Physical Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)
You yourself, brother Francis, have twice raised your voice, so it hath come to my ears, when the reader in the refectory hath been dealing with the lives of God's most blessed saints.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A medical-surgical specialty dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (the period shortly after birth).
(Obstetrics, NCI Thesaurus)
The branch of pharmacology dealing especially with the action of drugs upon various parts of the nervous system.
(Neuropharmacology, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
An interdisciplinary study dealing with the transmission of messages or signals, or the communication of information.
(Information and Communication Theory, NCI Thesaurus)
