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dealing

Syllables: deal·ing/ˈdiːlɪŋ/

dealing noun: a business transaction. Also the present participle and gerund of deal.

Noun

dealing (plural dealings)

  1. (in plural) A business transaction.
  2. 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
      The thoughts of others![…]c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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.

All 40 example sentences with dealing

Forms of dealing

pluraldealings

Plural of dealing: dealings

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

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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

  1. dealigning
  2. dealignment
  3. dealignments
  4. dealigns
  5. dealin'
  6. dealing
  7. dealing a bad hand
  8. dealing a good hand
  9. dealing a hand
  10. dealing in
  11. dealing it out

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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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