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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dealing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
improper behaviour/conduct/dealings etc
▪ allegations of improper banking practices
▪ improper sexual conduct
share dealing (=buying and selling shares as a business)
▪ He was convicted of illegal share dealing.
wheeling and dealing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fair
▪ The normal fair dealing provisions apply otherwise.
▪ He was a man to whom fair dealing came naturally and he was a just, if firm, master.
insider
▪ Determining the costs and benefits of regulating insider dealing is by no means a straight forward task.
▪ In all countries, insider dealing will continue as long as profits can be made from it.
▪ Making companies release important information more quickly could do more to curb insider dealing than any laws.
▪ Do moral arguments provide an unsatisfactory basis upon which to prohibit insider dealing?
▪ The issue of whether insider dealing is efficient or inefficient is problematic.
▪ Equally, legitimizing insider dealing could encourage managers to invest in risky projects.
▪ Yet most countries now have rules against insider dealing, not least because it can put outside investors off securities markets.
▪ Yet there has also been dismay that concern over insider dealing may threaten the flow of information.
■ NOUN
drug
▪ But then people go on about his past, the drug dealing and that.
▪ And the police warn they will be more raids in Milton Keynes if they hear drug dealing has started up again.
▪ Gary Richman will be sentenced once investigators have discovered just how much money he made from his drug dealing.
▪ He believes it funds drug dealing and he wants the Home Office to take it seriously.
▪ Five former employees at the post office had already been indicted on charges of drug dealing and embezzlement.
▪ Police say they were astonished at the openness of the drug dealing.
floor
▪ Bribery is rife in jockeying for good positions on the dealing floor of some firms.
▪ When the manager refused it, she got up and ran back upstairs to the dealing floor.
▪ At 5.30 p.m. the resigning director appeared on the dealing floor.
▪ Once a brash young dealer arrived on the dealing floor of Tudorbury Securities.
▪ After lunch, AEs are given a sales motivational talk, then are whisked on to the dealing floor.
▪ He started pacing the dealing floor.
room
▪ But the dealing room was not exclusively Tory.
▪ On occasions when the whole dealing room was punting out the stock, the price might climb even further.
▪ He was the dealing room bully, and dealers quaked in their boots at the thought of being put in his team.
▪ Many looked incongruously stiff in the casual-looking dealing room where they were interviewed.
▪ Suddenly the entire dealing room used to explode into a harsh crescendo of directed shouting.
▪ The Leeds has a full treasury dealing room.
▪ I slunk through the dealing room to Patterson's office and got there just as he did.
▪ Thus deliveries of quotes started getting held up, slowing the pace of the entire dealing room.
share
▪ It is thought that there has been some element of a share dealing ring in the Dunsdale case.
▪ However, since Stamp Duty has already been removed from share dealing, why has he set a moratorium on house purchase?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The mayor wants to end all drug dealing in the city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But then people go on about his past, the drug dealing and that.
▪ First, schedule 3 to the Act exempts some exclusive dealing arrangements.
▪ On occasions when the whole dealing room was punting out the stock, the price might climb even further.
▪ Other aspects to consider are charges, possible conflicts of interest, and efficiency in dealing and settlement.
▪ The argument advanced here is that insider dealing is the sort of conduct which ought to be criminal.
▪ The second change would be to make the insider dealing law more effective.
▪ When the manager refused it, she got up and ran back upstairs to the dealing floor.
▪ Yet most countries now have rules against insider dealing, not least because it can put outside investors off securities markets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dealing

Dealing \Deal"ing\, n. The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.

Double dealing, insincere, treacherous dealing; duplicity.

Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opinion.

Dealing

Deal \Deal\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dealt (d[e^]lt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dealing.] [OE. delen, AS. d[=ae]lan, fr. d[=ae]l share; akin to OS. d[=e]lian, D. deelen, G. theilen, teilen, Icel. deila, Sw. dela, Dan. dele, Goth. dailjan. See Deal, n.]

  1. To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

    Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?
    --Is. lviii. 7.

    And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold.
    --Tickell.

    The nightly mallet deals resounding blows.
    --Gay.

    Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt.
    --Dryden.

  2. Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

Wiktionary
dealing

vb. (present participle of deal English)

WordNet
dealing
  1. n. method or manner of conduct in relation to others; "honest dealing"

  2. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me" [syn: transaction, dealings]

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Usage examples of "dealing".

I could only assume that Ellison and this producer had had some acrimonious dealings in the past.

As time went on, I ran into many people who had had acrimonious dealings with Harlan Ellison.

The section of the report dealing with Acton had covered a respectable span of time, but Jani had still found significant gaps.

It is only now, some eighteen years later, that increasing numbers of experts are beginning to realize that it is the psychological state of the individual addict that counts and not the substance itself My accumulated knowledge of drug addiction comes from eighteen years of dealing with and answering effectively the questions and worries of the addicted.

I am a fully qualified Adjutor, authorized to sit at Supreme Council meetings and to advise the government on any and all matters dealing with the financial and economic well-being of the Pax, or of any group, sub-group, world, nationia, district, or sub-district within it.

Even though, at that moment, the adolescent may be trying to avoid dealing with these tricky emotional situations in-person, navigating these situations online can be a good way to practice skills that later will generalize to their face-to-face encounters.

Such a policy has unquestionably a great deal to recommend it as a transitional means of dealing with the problem of corporate aggrandizement, but let there be no mistake: it is not really a policy of strict neutrality between the small and the large industrial agent.

Guil told what he knew: a whack in the head from a winch cable, a partner dead, Gerry Harper going off from Ancel in a fit of rage, the Harper brothers not dealing with each other any more for years.

Worry about the dolphins and whether the antidote worked, about the aquarium and how they were dealing in her absence, and mostly about what was going to happen when Trey returned.

Lars Aquavit, who proved to be a funny man with dynamic stories to tell, I had few dealings with them.

Prejudice, Argent had found in his dealing around the world, was established and enforced by wealth.

Curious, but not atypical of the scientific mind that occasionally forgot it was dealing with human beings.

Dutch traders were scrupulously honest in their dealings and purchased by weight, establishing it as an invariable table of avoirdupois, that the hand of a Dutchman weighed one pound, and his foot two pounds.

C Deck to see Bap there, in full spacesuit, working at the taskboard in Mode C of the experiment dealing with daily physical exercise by each of them.

Dealing with those details, however, passed from her hands to Beal mot Tsuvo.