Dealings

Definition: Dealings

Dealings

Noun

1. Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with').

2. Mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups.

3. 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".

Date "dealings" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Dealings

Synonyms: dealing (n), relations (n), traffic (n), transaction (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Action	Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan).
Barter	Trade with, deal with, have dealings with; transact business with, do business with; open an account with, keep an account with.
Deity	Creation, preservation, divine government; Theocracy, Thearchy; providence; ways of Providence, dealings of Providence, dispensations of Providence, visitations of Providence.
Friendship	Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Make sense of the dealings (Disappear; performing artist: INXS)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings With Some of the Indian Tribes (reference) An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women) (reference) Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings (reference) Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates (reference) Nonprofit and Business Sector Collaboration: Social Enterprises, Cause-Related Marketing, Sponsorships, and Other Corporate-Nonprofit Dealings (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An illustration of German atrocities. German woman, with shaven head, who was forced to carry a sign which translates as: "I am the worst swine in the village; I had dealings with Poles. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another Agree to this Covenant of the League of Nations. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It would have suggested many things to a philosopher to have dealings with him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Greece	Several religious denominations reported difficulties in their dealings with the authorities on a variety of administrative matters. (references)
Economic History	Botswana	The legal system is sufficient to conduct secure commercial dealings. (references)
	Uzbekistan	The state language is Uzbek, but Russian is widely used for government and business dealings. (references)
Human Rights	Kazakhstan	Police believe that the killing was related to Samsakovaya's personal or business dealings. (references)
	Syria	The Government has met only twice with international human rights organizations: Human Rights Watch in 1995 and Amnesty International in 1997. As a matter of policy, the Government in its dealings with international groups denies that it commits human rights abuses. (references)
Trade	Australia	Therefore, business dealings with Australia do not qualify for coverage. (references)
Travel	Greece	Success in business dealings depends on a combination of patience and good judgment. (references)
	Colombia	Colombians tend to be friendly, straightforward and direct in their business dealings. (references)
	Australia	Australians are personally gracious, yet informal and direct in their business dealings. (references)
Worker Rights	Ghana	In 2000 two men who had attempted to sell two young men into forced labor for $9,100 (50 million cedis) each were remanded to prison custody and charged with "slave dealings." The case was pending in court at year's end. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Robert Novak	As you know, a great deal of controversy over President Bush and his previous dealings with Harken Energy Company. The White House says this has all been thrashed about for years, nothing new has come out.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Martin van Buren	1837-1841	We endeavor to conduct our intercourse with openness and sincerity, promptly avowing our objects and seeking to establish that mutual frankness which is as beneficial in the dealings of nations as of men.
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	If others depart from this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent.
Grover Cleveland	1885-1889; 1893-1897	Humanity and consistency require us to treat them with forbearance and in our dealings with them to honestly and considerately regard their rights and interests.
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Winston Churchill, in negotiating with the Soviets, observed that they respect only strength and resolve in their dealings with other nations.
George Bush	1989-1993	Not, not more bureaucracy, not more red tape, but the certainty that here at home, and especially in our dealings with other nations, environmental issues have the status they deserve.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dealings" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dealings" is used about 892 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	892	7,998

Expressions using "dealings": backstage dealings ♦ cash dealings ♦ crooked dealings ♦ dealings after trading hours ♦ dealings between people ♦ dealings of Providence ♦ dirty dealings ♦ have dealings ♦ have dealings with smb. ♦ have secret dealings with smb. ♦ shady dealings ♦ wheelings and dealings. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "dealings": jenny-dealings, mis-dealings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dealings"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		marrëveshje (accordance, agreement, arrangement, articles, bargain, bond, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concordat, concurrence, consonance, contract, convention, covenant, deal, entente, pact, settlement, stipulation, treaty, tune, undertaking), lidhje tregtare. (various references)

Arabic		‏معاملات, ‏تهريب (contraband, racket, running, smuggling), ‏توزيعات, ‏تعاط, ‏علاقات (connection, connections, connexion, intercourse). (various references)

Bulgarian		работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), търговски връзки, вземане-даване, отношения (intercourse, relations, truck). (various references)

Chinese		往還 (contacts), 往来 (intercourse), 往來 (contacts, to go back and forth). (various references)

Czech		transakce (deal, operation, transaction), styky, obchodní jednání. (various references)

Danish		remmedkasseforretninger (cash dealings, cash trade, spot deal, spot transactions), præmieforretninger (option contracts, option dealings), locoforretninger (cash dealings, cash trade, spot deal, spot transactions), kontantforretninger (cash dealings, cash trade, spot deal, spot transactions), forbindelse med privatpersoner (dealings with individuals). (various references)

Dutch		warboel (chaos, tangle), stellionaat (fraud in mortgage dealings, swindle), puinhoop (garbage dump, ruin), premieaffaires (option contracts, option dealings), locoaffaire (cash dealings, cash trade, spot deal, spot transactions), contantzaken (cash dealings, cash trade, spot deal, spot transactions), betrekkingen met particulieren (dealings with individuals). (various references)

Finnish		kanssakäyminen (communication). (various references)

French		distributions, transactions, relations, opérations, accointances. (various references)

German		Beziehungen (intercommunion, pull, relations, relationships). (various references)

Greek		συναλλαγή (interchange, transaction), σχέση (affinity, association, bearing, communion, concern, connection, pertinence, pertinency, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy), σχέσεισ, νταραβέρι (busines, transaction), πάρε-δώσε, παρτίδα (lot, portion), δοσοληψίεσ, δοσοληψίες. (various references)

Hungarian		kapcsolat (acquaintanceship, affair, affiliation, articulation, association, attach, conjunction, connection, connexion, hookup, intercommunication, liaison, link, link up, linkage, linking, nexus, passages, platonics, rapport, relation, relationship), eljárási mód (modus operandi), üzelmek (practices). (various references)

Italian		relazioni (relations, reports). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		取引 (business, transactions), 取り引き　 (business, transactions), 取り引き (business, transactions). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とりひき (business, transactions). (various references)

Korean		거래 (Deal, transaction, transactions). (various references)

Pig Latin		ealingsday.(various references)

Portuguese		transações (charges), relações (affiliation, intercourse, relations). (various references)

Romanian		tranzacţie (agreement, bargain, business, deals, go, transaction), relaţii (bond, connection, dealing with, intercommunication, intercourse, relation, relations, terms), afacere (affair, affairs, bargain, business, business deal, case, commerce, concern, deal, enterprise, go, job, matter, palaver, pennyworth, percentage, show, speculation, tasks, trade, transaction, undertaking). (various references)

Russian		сношение (relationship), сделки, торговые дела, дружеские отношения, деловые отношения. (various references)

Spanish		transacciones, relaciones comerciales. (various references)

Swedish		affärer (affairs, shops, trade). (various references)

Turkish		ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, contact, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), iş ilişkisi, bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, connexion, contact, contact man, coordination, coupling, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tap, tie, tie in, tie up). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 4, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Legei oun autw h gunh h samareitiV pwV su ioudaioV wn par emou piein aiteiV oushV gunaikoV samareitidoV ou gar sugcrwntai ioudaioi samareitaiV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dicit ergo ei mulier illa samaritana quomodo tu Iudaeus cum sis bibere a me poscis quae sum mulier samaritana non enim coutuntur Iudaei Samaritanis
Old English	990	West Saxon	Ða cwæð þæt samaritanisse wif tohym. Hu-mete bydst þu at me drinken.þonne þu ert Iudeisc. & ic em samaritaniscwyf. Ne brucað Iudeas & samaritanisscemetes æt-gadere.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Therfor thilke womman of Samarie seith to him, Hou thou, `whanne thou art a Jewe, axist of me drynk, that am a womman of Samarie? for Jewis vsiden not to dele with Samaritans.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him: how is it that thou beinge a Iewe axest drinke of me which am a Samaritane? for the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Then saith the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	John Chapter 4, Verse 9
Cebuano	Ang babayeng Samarianhon miingon kaniya, "Naunsa ba nga ikaw nga usa ka Judio mihangyo man nga paimnon ko nga usa ka babayeng Samarianhon?" Kay ang mga Judio ugod wala may pakigharong sa mga Samarianhon.
Croatian	Kaže mu na to Samarijanka: "Kako ti, Židov, išteš piti od mene, Samarijanke?" Jer Židovi se ne druže sa Samarijancima.
Danish	Da siger den samaritanske Kvinde til ham: "Hvorledes kan dog du, som er en Jøde, bede mig, som er en samaritansk Kvinde, om noget at drikke?" Thi Jøder holde ikke Samkvem med Samaritanere.
Dutch	Zo zeide dan de Samaritaanse vrouw tot Hem: Hoe begeert Gij, Die een Jood zijt, van mij te drinken, die een Samaritaanse vrouw ben? Want de Joden houden geen gemeenschap met de Samaritanen.
Finnish	Niin Samarian nainen sanoi hänelle: "Kuinka sinä, joka olet juutalainen, pyydät juotavaa minulta, samarialaiselta naiselta?" Sillä juutalaiset eivät seurustele samarialaisten kanssa.
French	La femme samaritaine lui dit: Comment toi, qui es Juif, me demandes-tu � boire, � moi qui suis une femme samaritaine? -Les Juifs, en effet, n`ont pas de relations avec les Samaritains. -
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kata perempuan Samaria itu kepada-Nya, "Masakan Tuan, seorang Yahudi, meminta minum daripada sahaya, seorang orang perempuan Samaria?" Karena orang Yahudi memang tiada beramah-ramahan dengan orang Samaria.
Italian	Ma la Samaritana gli disse: «Come mai tu, che sei Giudeo, chiedi da bere a me, che sono una donna samaritana?». I Giudei infatti non mantengono buone relazioni con i Samaritani.
Maori	Na ko te meatanga a te wahine o Hamaria ki a ia, he aha koe, he Hurai na koe, ka tono mai ai i te wai i ahau, he wahine nei ahau no Hamaria? kahore hoki e tata ana nga Hurai ki nga Hamarai.
Norwegian	Den samaritanske kvinne sier da til ham: Hvorledes kan du som er jøde, be mig, en samaritansk kvinne, om å få drikke? - for jøder har ikke samkvem med samaritaner.
Rumanian	Femeia Samariteancq I -a zis: ,,Cum Tu, Iudeu, ceri sq bei dela mine, femeie Samariteancq?`` -Iudeii, kn adevqr, n`au legqturi cu Samaritenii.
Shuar	Samarianmaya nuwa Jesusan Tímiayi "¿Itiura Israer-shuaraitiatmesha Samarianmaya nuwa aisha entsa seatam?" Kame Israer-shuar Samarianmaya shuarjainkia penké chichachu ásar nuna Tímiayi.
Swedish	Då sade den samaritiska kvinnan till honom: "Huru kan du, som är jude, bedja mig, som är en samaritisk kvinna, om något att dricka?" Judarna hava nämligen ingen umgängelse med samariterna.
Uma	Konce tobine toei, apa' biasa-na to Yahudi morungku mposigalo-raka to Samaria. Toe pai' na'uli': "Iko to Yahudi, aku' to Samaria-a. Napa pai' daho' -ko mperapii' -a ue?"
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Dealings" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bealings, Daahling, dahlings, dalangs, dealin, dealions, Devlins, doaling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dealings" (pronounced dē"lingz)
5	-ē" l i ng z	ceilings, feelings.
4	-l i ng z	Billings, couplings, cowlings, darlings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earthlings, failings, filings, fillings, killings, mailings, nestlings, pilings, railings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, samplings, saplings, schillings, seedlings, shillings, siblings, skillings, spellings, tailings, underlings, yearlings.
3	-i ng z	bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, coverings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, earnings, earrings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, fastenings, feedings, fightings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, runnings, savings, sayings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, sightings, slayings, soundings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearnings.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: leadings, signaled.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-n-s"
	-1 letter: aligned, dangles, dealing, denials, dingles, engilds, glandes, ladings, lagends, leading, leasing, ligands, linages, sealing, singled, slanged, snailed.
	-2 letters: aisled, algins, aliens, aligns, alined, alines, angels, angled, angles, dangle, deasil, deigns, denial, design, dinges, dingle, easing, elains, elands, engild, gained, genial, glades, glands, gleans, glides, ideals, ingles, island, ladens, ladies, lading, lagend, lasing.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-n-s"
	+1 letter: alongside, blindages, desalting, draglines, ensilaged, gliadines, pleadings, signalled.
	+2 letters: anglicised, declassing, desolating, escalading, galvanised, gavelkinds, girandoles, handseling, idealising, languished, misaligned, misdealing, misleading, resaddling, sanderling, signalised, signalized, slandering, sloganized.
	+3 letters: darlingness, delegations, detasseling, diagnosable, disentangle, displeasing, dragonflies, gadolinites, ganglioside, generalised, grainfields, grandiosely, handselling, highlanders, ladyfingers, languidness, lipreadings, mispleading, pedestaling, ringleaders, sanderlings, skedaddling.
	+4 letters: candlelights, cladogenesis, decreasingly, deescalating, desalinating, desalinizing, descrambling, desolatingly, despairingly, detasselling, diagnoseable, diagonalizes, digressional, disentailing, disentangled, disentangles, gangliosides, goaltendings, laryngitides, legerdemains, misleadingly, pedestalling, plantigrades, redisplaying, singularized, slaveholding, speedballing, stringhalted.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
co dealings director za	2
dealings share uk	2
dealings drug secret	2
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Dealings

Definition: Dealings

Dealings

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Synonyms: Dealings

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Thoreau, Henry David

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