dealing

The word “dealing” has 2 syllables: deal-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈdiː.lɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for dealing?

In the thesaurus, “dealing” has 251 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for dealing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dealing

  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • act
  • action
  • action towards
  • activity
  • administration
  • affair
  • alloting
  • allotment
  • angle
  • apportioning
  • apportionment
  • approach
  • arguing
  • assessment
  • assigning
  • attainment
  • attempt
  • auctioning
  • back-and-forth
  • bargain
  • bargaining
  • barter
  • bartering
  • behavior towards
  • bickering
  • black-marketing
  • bootlegging
  • business
  • buying
  • buying and selling
  • castling
  • chaffering
  • change
  • circulating
  • circulation
  • clashing
  • clientele
  • closeness
  • commerce
  • communication
  • communion
  • commutation
  • comparison shopping
  • conduct
  • connection
  • contract
  • conversion
  • cornering
  • correspondence
  • counterfeiting
  • countermeasure
  • countermove
  • counterstep
  • coup
  • course
  • crack
  • crime
  • custom
  • customers
  • cutting a deal
  • day-trading
  • deal
  • dealings
  • deed
  • delivery
  • dicker
  • dickering
  • diffusion
  • dispensation
  • dispersal
  • disposal
  • disposing
  • dissemination
  • dissipating
  • distributing
  • division
  • doing
  • doings
  • dole
  • economics
  • effort
  • employment
  • endeavor
  • engrossing
  • enterprise
  • essay
  • event
  • exchange
  • exchanging
  • execution
  • exertion
  • expedient
  • exploit
  • fair-trading
  • familiarity
  • feat
  • fencing
  • fighting
  • fling
  • go
  • goods
  • habit
  • haggling
  • handing out
  • handling
  • hassling
  • hawking
  • horse trade
  • horse trading
  • horse-trading
  • industry
  • initiative
  • interchange
  • intercourse
  • interdependence
  • interrelation
  • intimacy
  • investing
  • labor
  • line
  • logrolling
  • mailing
  • makeshift
  • management
  • manipulation
  • manner
  • market
  • marketing
  • means
  • measure
  • merchandising
  • merchandizing
  • merchantry
  • method
  • mode
  • modus operandi
  • monopolizing
  • moonshine
  • move
  • negotiating
  • negotiation
  • network
  • operation
  • pains
  • paltering
  • partition
  • partitioning
  • pass
  • patronage
  • peddling
  • picking up
  • piracy
  • plunder
  • poaching
  • practice
  • procedure
  • proceeding
  • process
  • processing
  • project
  • propagation
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • prorating
  • public
  • purchasing
  • quarreling
  • quarrelling
  • quibbling
  • quid pro quo
  • rationing
  • rearrangement
  • rebuying
  • reception
  • reciprocation
  • reciprocity
  • recompense
  • relations
  • relationship
  • replacement
  • requital
  • reselling
  • resort
  • resource
  • retailing
  • revision
  • rum-running
  • sales
  • scattering
  • selling
  • sharing
  • shift
  • shot
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • smuggling
  • soliciting
  • speculating
  • spreading
  • squabbling
  • stab
  • step
  • stopgap
  • strategy
  • stuff
  • substitution
  • success
  • supplanting
  • supplantment
  • supplying
  • swag
  • swap
  • swapping
  • switch
  • taking
  • theft
  • thing
  • tit for tat
  • trade
  • trade-off
  • trading
  • traffic
  • trafficking
  • transacting
  • transaction
  • transactions
  • transfer
  • transport
  • transportation
  • transposing
  • transposition
  • trial
  • triumph
  • trouble
  • truck
  • try
  • underselling
  • undertaking
  • usage
  • vending
  • violation
  • way
  • wetbacking
  • whack
  • wheeling and dealing
  • while
  • wholesaling
  • work
  • wrangling

Antonyms for dealing

  • antagonism
  • blackballing
  • blacking
  • boycotting
  • collection
  • disagreement
  • entertainment
  • fun
  • gathering
  • harm
  • hoard
  • hoarding
  • hold
  • hurt
  • idleness
  • indolence
  • injury
  • juncture
  • keeping
  • legal goods
  • maintenance
  • misunderstanding
  • pastime
  • retention
  • stagnation
  • store
  • unemployment
  • unity

Meanings of dealing

  • verb
    1. To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
    2. To administer or give out, as in small portions.
    3. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
    4. To pitch.
    5. To have dealings or business.
    6. To conduct oneself, to behave.
    7. To take action; to act.
    8. To trade professionally (followed by in).
    9. To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
    10. To be concerned with.
    11. To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • noun
    1. (chiefly in the plural) A business transaction.
    2. One's manner of acting toward others; behaviour; interactions or relations with others.

Example Sentences

  • The manager is responsible for dealing with customer complaints and resolving issues.
  • She has a talent for dealing with stressful situations calmly and effectively.
  • The company is dealing with a supply chain disruption that is affecting production.
  • Dealing with complex negotiations requires patience and strong communication skills.
  • The seminar focused on strategies for dealing with difficult colleagues in the workplace.

On this page you'll find 279 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to dealing, such as: accomplishment, achievement, act, action, action towards, activity, administration.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

about

  • abroad
  • across
  • adjacent
  • afloat
  • after a fashion
  • all but
  • all over
  • almost
  • along
  • alongside
  • any which way
  • anyhow
  • appreciably
  • approximately
  • apropos
  • apropos of
  • around
  • aroused
  • as concerns
  • as far as
  • as for
  • as good as
  • as regards
  • as respects
  • as to
  • astir
  • at
  • athwart
  • awake
  • awakened
  • aware
  • back
  • backward
  • backwards
  • behind
  • beside
  • borderline
  • by
  • by and large
  • chiefly
  • circa
  • concerning
  • conscious
  • counter
  • counterclockwise
  • dealing with
  • down
  • downward
  • downwards
  • encircling
  • everyplace
  • everywhere
  • fair
  • fairly
  • far and wide
  • feckly
  • generally
  • here and there
  • hereabout
  • hereabouts
  • high and low
  • in connection with
  • in general
  • in regard to
  • in relation to
  • in respect to
  • in reverse
  • in the ball park
  • in the neighborhood
  • in view of
  • insomniac
  • just about
  • kind of
  • largely
  • like
  • loosely
  • mainly
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearly
  • next door to
  • next to
  • nigh
  • nominally
  • obversely
  • of
  • on
  • over
  • partially
  • partly
  • passim
  • plus or minus
  • practically
  • pretty much
  • pretty nearly
  • rearward
  • rearwards
  • reawakened
  • referring to
  • regarding
  • relative to
  • respecting
  • reversely
  • revived
  • right and left
  • roughly
  • round
  • roused
  • rousted
  • say
  • sleepless
  • some
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • somewhere about
  • somewhere around
  • surrounding
  • through
  • throughout
  • touching
  • touching on
  • toward
  • towards
  • ubiquitously
  • up
  • virtually
  • wakeful
  • wakened
  • well-nigh
  • widdershins
  • wide-awake
  • with regard to
  • with respect to
  • withershins
  • within an inch of

back-and-forth

  • alternating
  • argument
  • argumentation
  • argy-bargy
  • backwards and forwards
  • bargain
  • bargaining
  • barter
  • bull session
  • chat
  • chat room
  • colloquy
  • commutation
  • confab
  • confabulation
  • conference
  • consult
  • consultancy
  • consultation
  • conversation
  • council
  • counsel
  • deal
  • dealing
  • debate
  • deliberation
  • dialog
  • dialogue
  • dicker
  • dickering
  • discourse
  • discussion
  • disquisition
  • exchange
  • forum
  • from pillar to post
  • from side to side
  • give-and-take
  • haggling
  • horse trade
  • horse trading
  • in and out
  • logrolling
  • meeting
  • negotiation
  • palaver
  • parley
  • pourparler
  • quid pro quo
  • rap
  • reciprocation
  • recompense
  • replacement
  • requital
  • roundtable
  • seesaw
  • seminar
  • skull practice
  • skull session
  • substitution
  • swap
  • symposium
  • talk
  • talkathon
  • to and fro
  • trade
  • trade-off
  • transaction
  • truck
  • up and down
  • vacillating
  • words

back-and-forths

  • argumentations
  • arguments
  • argy-bargies
  • bargains
  • barters
  • bull sessions
  • chat rooms
  • chats
  • colloquies
  • commutations
  • confabs
  • confabulations
  • conferences
  • consultancies
  • consultations
  • consults
  • conversations
  • councils
  • counsel
  • dealings
  • deals
  • debates
  • deliberations
  • dialogs
  • dialogues
  • dickers
  • discourses
  • discussions
  • disquisitions
  • exchanges
  • fora
  • forums
  • give-and-takes
  • horse trades
  • logrollings
  • meetings
  • negotiations
  • palavers
  • parleys
  • pourparlers
  • quid pro quos
  • raps
  • reciprocations
  • recompenses
  • replacements
  • requitals
  • round tables
  • roundtables
  • seminars
  • skull practices
  • skull sessions
  • substitutions
  • swaps
  • symposia
  • symposiums
  • talkathons
  • talks
  • trade-offs
  • trades
  • transactions
  • trucks
  • words

backhanded

  • Janus-faced
  • Pecksniffian
  • affected
  • ambiguous
  • artificial
  • assumed
  • bogus
  • campy
  • canting
  • claptrap
  • contrived
  • counterfeit
  • deceitful
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • double
  • double-dealing
  • double-edged
  • double-faced
  • empty
  • equivocal
  • facetious
  • facile
  • fake
  • false
  • feigned
  • forced
  • glib
  • hollow
  • hypocritical
  • insincere
  • jive
  • jocular
  • left-handed
  • lip
  • mealy
  • mealymouthed
  • meaningless
  • mechanical
  • pharisaical
  • phoney
  • phoney-baloney
  • phony
  • phony-baloney
  • pious
  • pretended
  • put-on
  • sanctimonious
  • sarcastic
  • sardonic
  • self-righteous
  • sham
  • simon-pure
  • simulated
  • strained
  • superficial
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • two-edged
  • two-faced
  • unctuous
  • unnatural
  • untruthful

backstabbing

  • abandonment
  • abuse
  • artful
  • aspersion
  • backbiting
  • beguiling
  • belittlement
  • betrayal
  • betraying
  • black eye
  • blame
  • business
  • calumniation
  • calumny
  • cattiness
  • censure
  • character assassination
  • cheap shot
  • condemnation
  • contempt
  • contumely
  • crafty
  • crime
  • crossing
  • cunning
  • damage
  • debasement
  • deceit
  • deceiving
  • deception
  • deceptive
  • defamation
  • degradation
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • derision
  • derogation
  • desertion
  • detraction
  • dirt
  • dirty laundry
  • dirty linen
  • discredit
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disgrace
  • dishonest
  • dishonor
  • disloyalty
  • disparagement
  • disrepute
  • double cross
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • dump
  • duplicity
  • dynamite
  • eavesdropping
  • faithlessness
  • falseness
  • falsity
  • foxy
  • fraud
  • fraudulent
  • giving away
  • going back on
  • gossip
  • guile
  • guileful
  • harm
  • hearsay
  • hit
  • hurt
  • hypocritical
  • idle rumor
  • ignominy
  • impairment
  • infamy
  • infidelity
  • informing
  • injury
  • injustice
  • innuendo
  • insincere
  • insinuation
  • invective
  • knavish
  • knock
  • lessening
  • libel
  • libeling
  • lie
  • low-down dirty
  • lying
  • malice
  • maligning
  • minimization
  • misleading
  • misrepresentation
  • muckraking
  • mud
  • mud-slinging
  • obloquy
  • opprobrium
  • peaching
  • pejorative
  • perfidy
  • prejudice
  • rap
  • reproach
  • revilement
  • ridicule
  • rumor
  • running down
  • scam
  • scandal
  • scandalmongering
  • scorcher
  • scorn
  • scurrility
  • selling down the river
  • sellout
  • shame
  • shifty
  • shopping
  • sin
  • skeleton in closet
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap in face
  • slime
  • slur
  • sly
  • smear
  • smear campaign
  • sneaky
  • snitching
  • spite
  • spitefulness
  • stabbing in the back
  • swindle
  • tale
  • talebearing
  • talk
  • traducement
  • traducing
  • treachery
  • treason
  • trickery
  • tricky
  • turning in
  • turpitude
  • two-facedness
  • two-timing
  • underestimation
  • underhanded
  • unfaithfulness
  • untruthful
  • vilification
  • vituperation
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing

Browse the Thesaurus