Noun: dealing
| Singular | dealing |
| Plural | dealings |
Sample Sentences
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Shylock:
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O father Abram, what these Christians are,
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Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
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The thoughts of others![…] [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
Nouns inflected like dealing
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling; equivalent to deal + -ing. See: Middle English Nouns '
delynge'.