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noun

Definition of dealingnext
1
as in bargaining

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as in activity

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dealing

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verb

present participle of deal
1
as in trafficking
to carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property that store deals in used furniture

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2
as in negotiating
to talk over or dispute the terms of a purchase you're going to have to learn how to deal if you want to buy a car at a fair price

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Recent Examples of dealing
Noun
Washington — President Trump on Tuesday signed a pardon for Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner who testified before Congress about his business dealings with the former president's son. — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2025 This bill will make it so that agencies have to reapply every three years for the exemption, making state business dealings more transparent. — Tom Speaker, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025 He was famously impeached in his first term after a whistleblower complaint about his Ukraine dealings was publicized by the intelligence community's inspector general. — Zachary Basu, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025 Barrenechea was a late addition to Villa’s summer transfer dealings with Juventus. — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dealing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dealing
  1. activity
  2. trafficking
  3. negotiating
  4. negotiation
  5. success
  6. bargaining
  7. transaction
  8. enterprise
Noun
  • This cohort makes for a super sweet gift (easter basket toppers, anyone?), or, as a does-it-all activity for a DIY spa night with the besties.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Phishing scams often trick victims into revealing sensitive information through fake emails or websites, while data breaches expose vast amounts of personal data that criminals can exploit for fraudulent activities.
    — Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Definition of activity
Verb
  • Two Connecticut men have been found guilty of trafficking fentanyl after selling to undercover officers, officials said.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 21 Dec. 2024
  • The investigation also revealed that members of the drug trafficking organization possessed and used firearms in connection with their drug trafficking activity, authorities said.
    — Staff report, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of trafficking
Verb
  • The two players have been negotiating deals with Cincinnati to keep them with the organization for years to come.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Looking for flexibility with terms can be just as valuable as negotiating a lower purchase price.
    — James Nelson, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of negotiating
Noun
  • So that’s all going to go ahead anyway, while these other negotiations on actually having a ceasefire are going on, presumably in parallel.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2025
  • If there are to be negotiations, there has to be credible deterrence.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of negotiation
Noun
  • For Tui, who spent time in the United States playing in the Premier Rugby Sevens competition, such success hasn’t happened by chance.
    — George Ramsay and Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Arsene Wenger’s early success in north London had been built on the pace and power of Vieira, Emmanuel Petit and Gilberto Silva, but when a scruffy 16-year-old with a dodgy mullet and a baggy shirt arrived from Barcelona, a new era began.
    — The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Definition of success
Verb
  • For some bargaining units, like the California Association of State Attorneys and Administrative Law Judges, the change came less than a month after the union started bargaining a new contract with the state.
    — William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 5 Mar. 2025
  • As Philadelphia systematically destroyed Kansas City on Sunday, Eagles fans were no doubt too … ebullient to pay much attention to the ads, while Chiefs supporters no doubt spent the commercial breaks bargaining with God or dousing themselves with Arthur Bryant‘s Barbecue Sauce for luck.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2025
Definition of bargaining
Noun
  • Circle represents the future of digital trust—ensuring transactions, currencies, and digital assets are transparent and secure.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Bhullar cited an individual life reinsurance transaction with primary insurer Equitable Holdings as a key driver of earnings per share projections becoming more rational.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of transaction
Noun
  • The means of wealth creation in Asia are also shifting from manufacturing into high-tech enterprise, said James Pomeroy, a global economist at HSBC (HSBC), in the Douglas Elliman and Knight Frank report.
    — Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Invest in a data strategy that connects all enterprise functions and eliminates silos.
    — Barry Cooper, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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