handling

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The way someone deals with or manages a situation, task, or people.

   Her calm handling of the crisis impressed everyone.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of touching, moving, or carrying something with the hands.

   Careful handling is needed when the boxes are marked fragile.

From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).

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