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dealing

[dee-ling] / ˈdi lɪŋ /
NOUN
commerce
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business economics exchange industry marketing retailing trade traffic
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dealings merchandising truck
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merchantry wholesaling
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unemployment
NOUN
contraband
Synonyms
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piracy smuggling trafficking
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bootlegging crime goods moonshine plunder poaching stuff swag theft violation
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counterfeiting rum-running wetbacking
Antonyms
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legal goods
NOUN
distribution
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circulation delivery disposal dissemination handling marketing sharing trading transport transportation
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administration allotment apportioning apportionment assessment assigning diffusion dispensation dispersal division dole mailing partition partitioning propagation rationing scattering spreading
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alloting circulating disposing dissipating handing out prorating
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hold keeping retention
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juncture unity
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collection gathering hoard hoarding maintenance store
NOUN
exchange
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change commerce network swap transaction transfer
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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
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stagnation
NOUN
trade
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business commerce contract deal enterprise exchange industry market traffic transaction
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barter clientele custom customers interchange patronage public sales swap truck
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merchantry
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disagreement idleness indolence misunderstanding unemployment
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entertainment fun pastime
NOUN
traffic
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business commerce communication industry trade truck
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barter closeness communion connection custom dealings doings exchange familiarity interchange intercourse intimacy patronage peddling relations relationship soliciting transactions
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merchantry
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unemployment
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antagonism disagreement
NOUN
treatment
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approach conduct employment management method practice procedure strategy
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angle custom execution habit line manipulation manner mode proceeding processing reception usage way
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action towards behavior towards modus operandi
Antonyms
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harm hurt injury

Example Sentences

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They are going through divorces, having trouble connecting with their spouses or dealing with their kids’ private school tuition.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Paying off that amount of debt requires a large income to begin with, of course, but her strategy could be used by others dealing with lower levels of debt.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026

Still, she said: "I have to do what I have to do to live .... I'm just dealing with whatever it brings to me – so, paying more."

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

"If he can get something that papers it over without dealing with real issues, that's probably enough," said Mannes.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Wachovia, amazingly, remained willing to sell cheap insurance on subprime mortgage bonds; the risk its credit officers were unwilling to take was the risk of dealing directly with Cornwall Capital.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis