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DEALINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with')
Synonyms:
dealings; traffic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("dealings" is a kind of...):
give-and-take; interchange; reciprocation (mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealings"):
relation ((usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups)
Derivation:
deal (take action with respect to (someone or something))
Sense 2
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 ("dealings" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dealings"):
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 3
Meaning:
Mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups
Synonyms:
dealings; relations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("dealings" is a kind of...):
social relation (a relation between living organisms (especially between people))
Derivation:
deal (behave in a certain way towards others)
Context examples:
“But, man!” I expostulated, you advance the fact that it is your ship as though it were a moral right. You have never considered moral rights in your dealings with others. You surely do not dream that I’ll consider them in dealing with you?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The Portuguese grocer refused him further credit, while the greengrocer, who was an American and proud of it, had called him a traitor to his country and refused further dealings with him—carrying his patriotism to such a degree that he cancelled Martin's account and forbade him ever to attempt to pay it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She was fond of him, too, for he had a remarkable gentleness and courtesy in his dealings with women.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is not merely, my pet, said I, that we lose money and comfort, and even temper sometimes, by not learning to be more careful; but that we incur the serious responsibility of spoiling everyone who comes into our service, or has any dealings with us.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If you were as much guided by nature in your estimate of men and women, and as little under the power of fancy and whim in your dealings with them, as you are where these children are concerned, we might always think alike.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But as most of them had, hanging up among their stock, an officer's coat or two, epaulettes and all, I was rendered timid by the costly nature of their dealings, and walked about for a long time without offering my merchandise to anyone.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
