deal with

(= manage, handle) → sich kümmern um; job → sich befassen mit; emotions → umgehen mit; (successfully) → fertig werden mit; (Comm) orders → erledigen; (= be responsible for) → zuständig sein für; let’s deal with the adjectives first → behandeln wir zuerst die Adjektive; to know how to deal with somebody → wissen, wie man mit jdm fertig wird or mit jdm umgeht; you bad boy, I’ll deal with you later (inf) → dich knöpf or nehm ich mir später vor, du Lausebengel! (inf); the problem has been successfully dealt with → man ist gut mit dem Problem fertig geworden; if we don’t deal with the problem soon → wenn wir uns nicht bald mit dem Problem befassen; to deal with a case (judge) → einen Fall verhandeln; (lawyer) → sich mit einem Fall befassen

(= be concerned with, book, film etc) → handeln von; (author) → sich beschäftigen or befassen mit

deal

(diːl) noun

1. a bargain or arrangement. a business deal.

2. the act of dividing cards among players in a card game.

verb – past tense, past participle dealt (delt) –

1. to do business, especially to buy and sell. I think he deals in stocks and shares.

2. to distribute (cards).

ˈdealer noun

1. a person who buys and sells. a dealer in antiques.

2. the person who distributes the cards in a card game.

ˈdealing noun

(usually in plural) contact (often in business), bargaining, agreement etc made (between two or more people or groups). fair/honest dealing; dealing on the Stock Market; I have no dealings with him.

deal with

1. to be concerned with. This book deals with methods of teaching English.

2. to take action about, especially in order to solve a problem, get rid of a person, complete a piece of business etc. She deals with all the inquiries.

a good deal / a great deal

much or a lot. They made a good deal of noise; She spent a great deal of money on it.

deal with

→ يَتَعَامَلُ مَعَ řešit tage sig af kümmern um (sich) αντιμετωπίζω ocuparse de käsitellä s’occuper de nositi se affrontare 扱う 다루다 aanpakken handle med poradzić sobie z lidar com справляться с hantera จัดการ ilgilenmek xử lý 处理

References in classic literature ?

If a man deal with another upon conditions, the start or first performance is all; which a man cannot reasonably demand, except either the nature of the thing be such, which must go before; or else a man can persuade the other party, that he shall still need him in some other thing; or else that he be counted the honester man.

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AN Insurance Agent was trying to induce a Hard Man to Deal With to take out a policy on his house.

Then," said the Hard Man to Deal With, "why are you so anxious to have your Company bet me money that it will not?

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Thurston, it is necessary to deal with me in perfect sincerity.

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All vessels are handled in the same way as far as theory goes, just as you may deal with all men on broad and rigid principles.

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But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland's work except in so far as it touches upon his character.

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Still, beside, or only a little way beneath, such a picture of passing fashion, what Steele and his fellows really deal with is the least transitory aspects of life, though still merely aspects--those points in which all human nature, great or little, finds what it has in common, and directly shows itself up.