DEALING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dealing mean? 

• DEALING (noun)
  The noun DEALING has 2 senses:

1. method or manner of conduct in relation to others

2. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

  Familiarity information: DEALING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEALING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Method or manner of conduct in relation to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

honest dealing

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dealing; dealings; transaction

Context example:

he has always been honest is his dealings with me

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)

 Context examples 

A mental condition marked by ongoing feelings of sadness, despair, loss of energy, and difficulty dealing with normal daily life.

(Depression, NCI Dictionary)

Chemical Engineering; engineering dealing with the industrial application of chemistry.

(Chemical Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)

An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic.

(Discussion, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about an individual's distress related to their family problems dealing with children.

(Distress over Family Problem of Dealing with Children, NCI Thesaurus)

A question about an individual's distress related to their family problems dealing with partner.

(Distress over Family Problem of Dealing with Partner, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of medicine dealing with the heart and its diseases.

(Cardiology, NCI Thesaurus)

A major category of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), dealing with natural and biologically-based nutritional interventions and practices.

(Biologically Based Practices, NCI Thesaurus)

Additionally, Saturn is known to slow things down and pile on a lot of paperwork, creating the situation you may have been dealing with lately.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

These are just some of the conclusions of a systematic review of 14 articles dealing with the role of milk and dairy products in the prevention of chronic diseases.

(Adequate intake of milk and dairy products in different life stages helps prevent chronic diseases, University of Granada)

All of the divisions of the natural sciences dealing with the various aspects of the phenomena of life and vital processes.

(Biological Sciences, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)