Dealing

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deal \Deal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dealt} (d[e^]lt); p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Dealing}.] [OE. delen, AS. d[=ae]lan, fr. d[=ae]l share;
     akin to OS. d[=e]lian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel.
     deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See {Deal}, n.]
     1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in
        portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; --


        sometimes with out.
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              Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry? --Is.
                                                    lviii. 7.
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              And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
                                                    --Tickell.
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              The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. --Gay.
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              Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were
              dealt.                                --Dryden.
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     2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at
        the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal
        one a jack.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dealing \Deal"ing\, n.
     The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of
     cards to the players; method of business; traffic;
     intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.
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     {Double dealing}, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity.
        
  
     {Plain dealing}, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest,
        outspoken expression of opinion.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dealing
       n 1: method or manner of conduct in relation to others; "honest
            dealing"
       2: the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying
          on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible
          without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings
          with me" [syn: {transaction}, {dealings}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "dealing":
     ESP, agency, answer, balance of trade, barter, bartering,
     big business, brokerage, business, business dealings,
     buying and selling, commerce, commercial affairs,
     commercial relations, communication, communion, congress,
     connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence,
     dealings, doing business, exchange, fair trade, free trade,
     give-and-take, horse trading, industry, information, interaction,
     interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse,
     interplay, jobbing, linguistic intercourse, market, marketing,
     mercantile business, merchandising, merchantry, message,
     multilateral trade, reciprocal trade, reply, response,
     restraint of trade, retailing, small business, social intercourse,
     speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, swapping,
     talking, telepathy, the business world, the marketplace, touch,
     trade, trading, traffic, trafficking, truck, two-way communication,
     unilateral trade, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling