DEALINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dealings mean? 

• DEALINGS (noun)
  The noun DEALINGS has 3 senses:

1. social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with')

2. mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

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

  Familiarity information: DEALINGS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEALINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dealings; traffic

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:

Mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

dealings; relations

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)

Sense 3

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 ("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)

 Context examples 

I only know Mr. Holmes through some business dealings which we have had, but I have every respect for his talents and his character.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In all their dealings and intercourse, Sir Walter Elliot must ever have the precedence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I descended so low, as to desire some English yeoman of the old stamp might be summoned to appear; once so famous for the simplicity of their manners, diet, and dress; for justice in their dealings; for their true spirit of liberty; for their valour, and love of their country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A higher King than yours has given them to me, and I tell you here in your own castle hall, Sir Tristram de Rochefort, that you have sinned deeply in your dealings with these poor folk, and that the hour will come, and may even now be at hand, when God's hand will be heavy upon you for what you have done.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone of voice, and a certain half-look attending the last expression of his hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)