About The Word Handling

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Handling

Handling Meaning & Definition
Handling Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Handling?

[n] the action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands
[n] manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
[n] the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Handling: manipulation | treatment

Related Terms | Find terms related to Handling: accomplishment | achievement | action | administration | agency | authority | care | caressing | charge | command | commission | completion | conduct | control | custodianship | direction | discharge | dispatch | driving | effectuation | employment | enactment | execution | exercise | exploitation | feeling | fingering | friction | frottage | functioning | governance | government | guidance | husbandry | implementation | intendance | lead | leading | management | managery | managing | manipulation | means of dealing | occupation | operancy | operation | ordering | oversight | palpation | performance | performing | perpetration | petting | pilotage | practice | pressure | regulation | responsibility | rubbing | running | steerage | steering | stewardship | stroking | superintendence | superintendency | supervision | the conn | the helm | the wheel | touching | transaction | treatment | usage | using | utilization | work | working | workings

See Also | bioremediation | dealing | direction | fielding | loading | management | manual labor | manual labour | materials handling | short shrift | touch | touching | unloading

Handling In Webster's Dictionary

\Han"dling\, n. [AS. handlung.] 1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See {Handle}, v. t. The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day. --Spenser. 2. (Drawing, Painting, etc.) The mode of using the pencil or brush, etc.; style of touch. --Fairholt.

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