Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Transactions or relations with others, usually in business.
- n. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others; treatment: honest dealing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Practice; doings; conduct; behavior.
- n. Conduct in relation to others; treatment: as, the dealings of a father with his children; God's dealings with men: usually in the plural.
- n. Intercourse in buying and selling; traffic; business: as, New York merchants have extensive dealings with all the world.
- n. Intercourse of business or friendship; communication.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of deal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
- n. method or manner of conduct in relation to others
Examples
“The eight foundation cards, as they appear in the deal (whether they fall on the corner or on the side packets), are to be at once played in the space reserved for them, and on these may be played any suitable cards which in dealing fall _on either of the four corner packets_; but when a card (otherwise suitable) falls on either of the _side packets_, it may not be played unless the foundation to which it belongs happens to be the one _immediately adjoining the side packet on which that card fell in dealing_.”
“Maybe you can give me a phrase dealing somehow with percentage.”
“Evil times will not bear plain dealing, that is evil men will not; and the men the prophet here speaks of had reason to think themselves evil men indeed, when wise and good men thought it in vain to speak to them and were afraid of having any thing to do with them.”
“It is the abuse of the filibuster that has been the issue here and that repugs have no integrity, no honesty in dealing, no sense of fairness or justice — there should be some way to preserve the filibuster in order for the minority to be heard, but something must be done to prevent the abuses of the repugs.”
“It might be the new language in dealing with the violent, fascist Republicans.”
“Pretty straightforward, just try to apply the stuff he said and the attitude he put forth in dealing with other people.”
“I'm sure it was exhausting, took unbelieveable work hours, and was extremely frustrating in dealing with lying, obstructionist Republicans.”
“Not only has he been an excellent Senate Majority Leader with patience of Job in dealing with lying, obstructionist Republicans, but he is a good and decent man.”
“But in a society that holds to some public ideal that says that naked crony capitalism is still not okay — where some fig leaf covering self-dealing from the public fisc is still needed — this form of self deception is still crucial, as a matter of affect.”
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