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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : dee-ling
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdi lɪŋ



Definition of dealing

Origin :
  • Old English dælan "to divide, distribute, separate, share, bestow, dispense," from the source of deal (n.). Meaning "to distribute cards before a game" is from 1520s. To deal with "handle" is attested from mid-15c. Related: Dealt; dealing.
  • noun business relations
  • verb do business
  • verb distribute
  • verb handle, manage
Example sentences :
  • He was used to dealing with pique in women, and had found it the most manageable of weaknesses.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • I wish it were possible to speak of God without the implication of dealing with religion.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • In dealing with your daily dreads you simply counted God out.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • In dealing with children what is needed is not logic but sense.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • This is because he is dealing with an imaginary world, not with the world as it is.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • Eofor avenges his brother's fall by dealing Ongenþew a mortal blow, 2978 ff.
  • Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown
  • He could think of no way gentle enough for dealing with this crisis.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • At the time with which we are dealing, Mrs. Vansittart was staying there, alone with her maid.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • The colossal consequence of the matter with which I was dealing gripped and thrilled me.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • People who will be dealing in contradiction ought to pay for it.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

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