treatment

Noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

1. The process or manner of treating someone or something.
   • He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
2. Medical care for an illness or injury.
   • A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
   • Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.

   Synonyms:

   course

3. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4. (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
   • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii
5. (countable) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
6. (obsolete) entertainment; treat
   • Accept such treatment as a swain affords.1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC
7. (euphemistic) harsh punishment; retribution
   • He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.
   • Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.