| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
| Synonyms: | bargain, barter, bicker, buy and sell, dicker, hammer out deal, handle, horse trade, knock down price, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, work out deal |
| Antonyms: | deny, refuse |
| Main Entry: | deal/deal with |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | handle, manage |
| Synonyms: | act, approach, attend to, behave, behave toward, clear, concern, conduct oneself, consider, control, cope with, direct, discuss, get a handle on something, hack it, handle, have to do with, live with, make a go of it, make it, oversee, play, review, rid, see to, serve, take, take care of, treat, unburden, use |
| Antonyms: | mismanage |
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
| Synonyms: | affairs, balls in air, business, commerce, concerns, doings, intercourse, irons in fire, matters, proceedings, ropes, sale, strings, things, trade, traffic, transactions, truck, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
| Synonyms: | bootlegging, counterfeiting, crime, dealing, goods*, moonshine, piracy, plunder, poaching, rum-running, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, trafficking, violation, wetbacking |
| Antonyms: | legal goods |
| Main Entry: | distribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, dispersion |
| Synonyms: | administration, alloting, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assessment, assigning, circulating, circulation, dealing, delivery, diffusion, dispensation, dispersal, disposal, disposing, dissemination, dissipating, division, dole, handing out, handling, mailing, marketing, partition, partitioning, propagation, prorating, rationing, scattering, sharing, spreading, trading, transport, transportation |
| Antonyms: | collection, gathering, hoard, hoarding, maintenance, store |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
| Synonyms: | barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, shuffling, substitution, supplanting, supplantment, swap, switch, tit for tat, traffic, transaction, transfer, transposing, transposition, truck |
| Main Entry: | trade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
| Synonyms: | barter, business, clientele, commerce, contract, custom, customers, deal, dealing, enterprise, exchange, industry, interchange, market, merchantry, patronage, public, sales, swap, traffic, transaction, truck |
| Main Entry: | treatment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handling of entity, situation |
| Synonyms: | action towards, angle, approach, behavior towards, conduct, custom, dealing, employment, execution, habit, line, management, manipulation, manner, method, mode, modus operandi, practice, procedure, proceeding, processing, reception, strategy, usage, way |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |