handling
Americannoun
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a touching, grasping, or using with the hands.
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the manner of treating or dealing with something; management; treatment.
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the manual or mechanical method or process by which something is moved, carried, transported, etc.
adjective
noun
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the act or an instance of picking up, turning over, or touching something
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treatment, as of a theme in literature
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the process by which a commodity is packaged, transported, etc
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( as modifier )
handling charges
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law the act of receiving property that one knows or believes to be stolen
Etymology
Origin of handling
First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English handlung (noun); equivalent to handle + -ing 1
Example Sentences
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An SNP spokesperson said Carragher had been suspended and dropped as a candidate "in light of ongoing allegations regarding the handling of matters within the North Lanarkshire Council SNP group in relation to Jordan Linden".
From BBC
James was Burden’s colleague, a senior associate who at the time was handling, with Burden’s help, the IPO for an internet holding company.
From Los Angeles Times
Managers with alternative credit offerings such as Blackstone have been hit hard by the dim view of private credit due to Blue Owl’s handling of some private credit funds, the analyst says.
Her memory has the quality of “an old photograph, the edges fuzzy from frequent handling,” and she’s forced to wonder if “she’d made the whole thing up.”
A member of the public was killed after handling the delivery device, a discarded perfume bottle, triggering the largest Western expulsion in decades of Russian diplomats alleged to be spies.
From Barron's
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