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treatment

[ treet-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an act or manner of treating.

    Synonyms: approach, conduct, management, handling

  2. action or behavior toward a person, animal, etc.
  3. management in the application of medicines, surgery, etc.
  4. literary or artistic handling, especially with reference to style.
  5. subjection to some agent or action.
  6. Movies, Television. a preliminary outline of a film or teleplay laying out the key scenes, characters, and locales.


treatment

/ ˈtriːtmənt /

noun

  1. the application of medicines, surgery, psychotherapy, etc, to a patient or to a disease or symptom
  2. the manner of handling or dealing with a person or thing, as in a literary or artistic work
  3. the act, practice, or manner of treating
  4. films an expansion of a script into sequence form, indicating camera angles, dialogue, etc
  5. the treatment slang.
    the usual manner of dealing with a particular type of person (esp in the phrase give someone the ( full ) treatment )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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  • over·treatment noun
  • post·treatment adjective
  • self-treatment noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of treatment1

First recorded in 1550–60; treat + -ment
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Idioms and Phrases

see red carpet (treatment) .
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Example Sentences

The woman was rushed to a hospital about 20 miles away, resulting in about a one-hour delay in treatment.

Many come in from residential treatment centers or had run away from their placements, he said.

The US Food and Drug Administration approves new treatments.

After some resistance, Moscow allowed him to be flown to Berlin’s Charité hospital for treatment.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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