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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DE'ALING, ppr.
1. Dividing; distributing; throwing out.
2. Trading; trafficking; negotiating.
3. Treating; behaving.
DE'ALING, n.
1. Practice; action; conduct; behavior; as, observe the dealings of the men who administer the government. But it is now more generally used of the actions of men in private life.
2. Conduct in relation to others; treatment; as the dealings of a father with his children. God's dealings with men are the dispensations of his providence, or moral government.
3. Intercourse in buying and selling; traffick; business; negotiation. American merchants have extensive dealings with the merchants of Liverpool.
4. Intercourse of business or friendship; concern.
The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. John 4.
DEAM'BULATE, v.i. To walk abroad.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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, dealing, dealings]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. method of business ; manner of conduct 2. plural friendly or business interactions

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see deal II

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Conduct, behavior, action. 2. Commerce, intercourse, business, trade, traffic.

Moby Thesaurus

ESP, agency, answer, balance of trade, barter, bartering, big business, brokerage, business, business dealings, buying and selling, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, communication, communion, congress, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, dealings, doing business, exchange, fair trade, free trade, give-and-take, horse trading, industry, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, jobbing, linguistic intercourse, market, marketing, mercantile business, merchandising, merchantry, message, multilateral trade, reciprocal trade, reply, response, restraint of trade, retailing, small business, social intercourse, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, swapping, talking, telepathy, the business world, the marketplace, touch, trade, trading, traffic, trafficking, truck, two-way communication, unilateral trade, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling