Definitions for dealing

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dealing deal·ing

Spelling: [dee-ling]

IPA: /ˈdi lɪŋ/

Dealing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 278 anagrams from letters in dealing (adegiln).

Definitions for dealing

noun

1. Usually, dealings. relations; business:
2. conduct in relations to others; treatment:
3. a business transaction:
4. a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage:
5. a secret or underhand agreement or bargain:
6. Informal. treatment received in dealing with another:
7. an indefinite but large quantity, amount, extent, or degree (usually preceded by good or great):
8. Cards. the distribution of cards to the players in a game. the set of cards in one's hand. the turn of a player to deal. the period of time during which a deal is played.
9. an act of dealing or distributing.
10. (initial capital letter) an economic and social policy pursued by a political administration:
11. Obsolete. portion; share.

Idioms

1. cut a deal, Informal. to make an agreement, especially a business agreement:
2. deal someone in, Slang. to include:

Verb phrases

1. deal off, Poker. to deal the final hand of a game. Slang. to get rid of or trade (something or someone) in a transaction.

verb (used with object)

1. to give to one as a share; apportion:
2. to distribute among a number of recipients, as the cards required in a game:
3. Cards. to give a player (a specific card) in dealing:
4. to deliver; administer:
5. Slang. to buy and sell (drugs) illegally.
6. Slang. to trade (an athlete) to another team.

verb (used without object)

1. to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in):
2. to take action with respect to a thing or person (followed by with):
3. to conduct oneself toward persons:
4. to be able to handle competently or successfully; cope (followed by with):
5. to trade or do business (followed by with or in):
6. to distribute, especially the cards in a game (often followed by out):
7. Slang. to buy and sell drugs illegally.
8. Archaic. to have dealings or commerce, often in a secret or underhand manner (often followed by with):

Origin of dealing

First recorded in 1250-1300, dealing is from the Middle English word deling. See deal¹, -ing¹

Examples for dealing

One topic that comes up among the members, she says, is dealing with loss years later.

In dealing with your daily dreads you simply counted God out.

I wish it were possible to speak of God without the implication of dealing with religion.

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized, and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

He was used to dealing with pique in women, and had found it the most manageable of weaknesses.

“We are dealing with a systematic failure in the Cleveland Police Department,” DeWine concluded.

According to the young man, both were dealing with the aftermath.

This is because he is dealing with an imaginary world, not with the world as it is.

In dealing with children what is needed is not logic but sense.

It seems to me that we are dealing with more than bottom-line economics and bottom-squeezing ergonomics.