dealing
Syllables: deal·ing/ˈdiːlɪŋ/
dealing noun: a business transaction. Also the present participle and gerund of deal.
Noun
dealing (plural dealings)
- A business transaction.
- One's manner of acting toward others; behaviour; interactions or relations with others.
- Shylock:
O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
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- Shylock:
Also used as
dealing is also the present participle and gerund of deal.
dealing meaning in Urdu
dealing in Urdu
- ڈیلنگ
Examples of dealing in a sentence
- Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.
- Stephen King's first novel is about a girl named Carrie dealing with supernatural powers.
- The problem's identification was the first step toward dealing with it.
Forms of dealing
| plural | dealings |
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Origin of dealing
From Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling; equivalent to deal + -ing.
Words formed from dealing
Phrases with dealing
Words that rhyme with dealing
- ceiling
- feeling
- healing
- concealing
- Eling
- glass ceiling
- peeling
- revealing
- shieling
- stealing
- wheeling
- appealing
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Questions about dealing
- What does dealing mean?
- Dealing means a business transaction.
- What is dealing in Urdu?
- Dealing in Urdu is ڈیلنگ. See Dealing meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is dealing?
- Dealing is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dealing?
- Dealing is pronounced /ˈdiːlɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of dealing?
- The plural of dealing is dealings.
Words near dealing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dealing (page history and authors); dealing (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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