'To deal with' definitions:
Definition of 'To deal with'
From: GCIDE
- Deal \Deal\, v. i.
- 1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. [1913 Webster]
- They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. --South. [1913 Webster]
- This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with. [1913 Webster]
- Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat. [1913 Webster]
- If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. [1913 Webster]
- To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by servants. "Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind." --Locke.
- To deal in. (a) To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as, they deal in political matters. (b) To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as, they deal in fish.
- To deal with. (a) To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. "Dealing with witches." --Shak. (b) To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with. [1913 Webster]
- The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, "dealt with him" on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- Return . . . and I will deal well with thee. --Gen. xxxii. 9. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To deal with'
- Deal,
- Deale,
- Dealing,
- To deal by,
- To deal in,
- deal out,
- deal with,
- dealings,
- Deal Island,
- Deal tree,
- Deal, NJ,
- Deale, MD,
- Double dealing,
- Never a deal,
- New Deal,
- Plain Dealing,
- To deal in futures,
- a good deal,
- a great deal,
- arms deal,
- big deal,
- business deal,
- deal tenth,
- death dealing,
- fair deal,
- good deal,
- great deal,
- make a deal,
- package deal,
- raw deal,
- red deal,
- square deal,
- square dealing,
- tenth deal,
- wheeling and dealing,
- yellow deal,
- Deal Island, MD,
- New Deal, TX,
- Plain Dealing, LA,
- Plain-dealing,
- double-dealing