dealing
noun
[ ˈdiːlɪŋ ]
• business relations or transactions.
• "they had dealings with an insurance company"
Similar:
business methods,
business practices,
business,
commerce,
trading,
trafficking,
marketing,
merchandising,
transactions,
financial transactions,
behaviour,
conduct,
actions,
policy,
• the activity of buying and selling a particular commodity.
• "share dealings"
deal
verb
• distribute (cards) in an orderly rotation to players for a game or round.
• "the cards were dealt for the last hand"
Similar:
distribute,
give out,
share out,
divide out,
divide up,
hand out,
pass out,
pass round,
dole out,
mete out,
dispense,
allocate,
allot,
assign,
apportion,
bestow,
divvy up,
• take part in commercial trading of a particular commodity.
• "directors were prohibited from dealing in the company's shares"
Similar:
trade in,
buy and sell,
be concerned with trading,
be engaged in trading,
do business in,
sell,
vend,
purvey,
supply,
stock,
offer,
offer for sale,
have for sale,
peddle,
market,
merchandise,
traffic in,
smuggle,
run,
rustle,
push,
flog,
• take measures concerning (someone or something), especially with the intention of putting something right.
Similar:
cope with,
handle,
manage,
attend to,
see to,
take care of,
take charge of,
take in hand,
sort out,
tackle,
take on,
control,
master,
influence,
manipulate,
• inflict (a blow) on (someone or something).
• "hopes of an economic recovery were dealt another blow"
Origin:
Old English dǣlan ‘divide’, ‘participate’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch deel and German Teil ‘part’ (noun), also to dole1. The sense ‘divide’ gave rise to ‘distribute’, hence deal1 (sense 1 of the verb, sense 4 of the verb); the sense ‘participate’ gave rise to ‘have dealings with’, hence deal1 (sense 2 of the verb, sense 3 of the verb).
