Definitions

dealing

[dee-ling] / ˈdi lɪŋ /

NOUN

commerce

Synonyms

STRONGEST

business economics exchange industry marketing retailing trade traffic

STRONG

dealings merchandising truck

WEAK

merchantry wholesaling

Antonyms

STRONGEST

unemployment

NOUN

contraband

Synonyms

STRONGEST

piracy smuggling trafficking

STRONG

bootlegging crime goods moonshine plunder poaching stuff swag theft violation

WEAK

counterfeiting rum-running wetbacking

Antonyms

WEAK

legal goods

NOUN

distribution

Synonyms

STRONGEST

circulation delivery disposal dissemination handling marketing sharing trading transport transportation

STRONG

administration allotment apportioning apportionment assessment assigning diffusion dispensation dispersal division dole mailing partition partitioning propagation rationing scattering spreading

WEAK

alloting circulating disposing dissipating handing out prorating

Antonyms

STRONGEST

hold keeping retention

STRONG

juncture unity

WEAK

collection gathering hoard hoarding maintenance store

NOUN

exchange

Synonyms

STRONGEST

change commerce network swap transaction transfer

STRONG

barter castling commutation conversion correspondence interchange interdependence interrelation rearrangement reciprocation reciprocity replacement revision shift shuffle shuffling substitution supplanting switch traffic transposing transposition truck

WEAK

buying and selling quid pro quo supplantment tit for tat

Antonyms

STRONG

stagnation

NOUN

trade

Synonyms

STRONGEST

business commerce contract deal enterprise exchange industry market traffic transaction

STRONG

barter clientele custom customers interchange patronage public sales swap truck

WEAK

merchantry

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disagreement idleness indolence misunderstanding unemployment

WEAK

entertainment fun pastime

NOUN

traffic

Synonyms

STRONGEST

business commerce communication industry trade truck

STRONG

barter closeness communion connection custom dealings doings exchange familiarity interchange intercourse intimacy patronage peddling relations relationship soliciting transactions

WEAK

merchantry

Antonyms

STRONGEST

unemployment

STRONG

antagonism disagreement

NOUN

treatment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

approach conduct employment management method practice procedure strategy

STRONG

angle custom execution habit line manipulation manner mode proceeding processing reception usage way

WEAK

action towards behavior towards modus operandi

Antonyms

WEAK

harm hurt injury

Example Sentences

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Dealing with a call center or an automated teller might have been exasperating.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Dealing with my parents’ financial affairs is the aspect of their estate that’s taken me the longest.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Dealing with my mother and my stepsister is exhausting and causes me a lot of anxiety.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

Dealing with losses of loved ones and places, something shared by many in later years, she wondered “How do we make meaning at this time of life?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Dealing with this system on its own terms is complicated by the problem of denial.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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