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deal·ing

(dē′lĭng)

1. dealings Transactions or relations with others, usually in business.

2. Method or manner of conduct in relation to others; treatment: honest dealing.

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dealing

(ˈdiːlɪŋ)

1. (Commerce)

a. selling or doing business in a particular commodity: arms dealing.

b. (as modifier): dealing fees.

2. (Stock Exchange)

a. selling or doing business in a particular commodity: arms dealing.

b. (as modifier): dealing fees.

3. behaviour towards other people; way of treating other people: fair dealing.

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deal•ing

(ˈdi lɪŋ)

n.

1. Usu., dealings. interaction: commercial dealings.

2. conduct in relations to others: honest dealing.

[1250–1300]

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Noun	1.	dealing - method or manner of conduct in relation to others; "honest dealing" treatment, handling - the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
	2.	dealing - 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" transaction, dealings group action - action taken by a group of people commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) affairs - transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state" operations, trading operations - financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records transference, transfer - transferring ownership exchange - the act of giving something in return for something received; "deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable" business deal, deal, trade - a particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal" downtick - a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction uptick - a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction borrowing - obtaining funds from a lender renting, rental - the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)

Translations

تَعامُل، بَيْع وَراء

jednáníobchodstyk

forretningerforretningssamkvemhandel

viîskiptatengsl

styky

alım satım alışveriş iş

买卖商务往来

dealing

[ˈdiːlɪŋ] N

1. (Comm) we have a reputation for honest dealing → tenemos fama de ser honrados en nuestros negocios

2. (St Ex) → transacciones fpl (bursátiles)
a computerized dealing system → un sistema informatizado de transacciones (bursátiles)
dealing was sluggish today → hoy ha habido muy poco movimiento or muy poca actividad (bursátil)
when dealing started the price soared → cuando se abrió el mercado (bursátil) la cotización se disparó

3. (in drugs, arms) → tráfico m (in de)
see also insider B
see also wheeling

4. (also dealing out) (gen, Cards) → reparto m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

dealing

(= trading) → Handel m; (on stock exchange) → Handel m, → Transaktionen pl; (in drugs) → Dealen nt; he is involved in drug dealing → er ist in den Drogenhandel verwickelt

(of cards) → Geben nt, → Aus- or Verteilen nt

dealings pl (Comm) → Geschäfte pl; (generally) → Umgang m; to have dealings with somebody → mit jdm zu tun haben; (Comm also) → Geschäftsbeziehungen zu jdm haben; he had secret dealings with the Mafia → er stand heimlich mit der Mafia in Verbindung

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deal

(diːl) noun

1. a bargain or arrangement. a business deal.

2. the act of dividing cards among players in a card game.

verb – past tense, past participle dealt (delt) –

1. to do business, especially to buy and sell. I think he deals in stocks and shares.

2. to distribute (cards).

ˈdealer noun

1. a person who buys and sells. a dealer in antiques.

2. the person who distributes the cards in a card game.

ˈdealing noun

(usually in plural) contact (often in business), bargaining, agreement etc made (between two or more people or groups). fair/honest dealing; dealing on the Stock Market; I have no dealings with him.

deal with

1. to be concerned with. This book deals with methods of teaching English.

2. to take action about, especially in order to solve a problem, get rid of a person, complete a piece of business etc. She deals with all the inquiries.

a good deal / a great deal

much or a lot. They made a good deal of noise; She spent a great deal of money on it.

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It is better dealing with men in appetite, than with those that are where they would be.

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I'll just finish dealing, and then Ilyushka will come with his chorus."

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Miss Julia," continuing aloud, "my nature is all plain- dealing, and I am delighted to find a congenial spirit.

Plain- dealing, too, is my nature, and I adore the same quality in others; most especially in those I could wish to marry."

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At first sight the difference does not seem great in either line of dealing with the difficult problem of limitations.

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"Open an account to Hardwell in it; a quarter of all the shares I buy are to be in his name, and a quarter of all the profits I make in dealing in the shares is to be credited to him."

If you are asked questions as to why you are dealing in these shares to such an extent, you can say that the friend for whom you are acting desires to boom copper, and is going on the low price of the metal at the moment.

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But the entire range of heroic legend was open to these poets, and other clusters of epics grew up dealing particularly with the famous story of Thebes, while others dealt with the beginnings of the world and the wars of heaven.

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Dealing with the beginnings of imagination in the minds of children, they record, with the reality which a very delicate touch preserves from anything lugubrious, not those merely preventible miseries of childhood over which some writers have been apt to gloat, but the contact of childhood with the great and inevitable sorrows of life, into which children can enter with depth, with dignity, and sometimes with a kind of simple, pathetic greatness, to the discipline of the heart.

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And I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.