handling

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

  1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
    • Edmund Spenser
      The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.
    • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
      […] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
  2. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
  3. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Derived terms
  • request-handling
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Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

  1. present participle of handle

Danish

Noun

handling

  1. action, act

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing

Noun

handling f, m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

  1. an act, deed
  2. action
  3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing

Noun

handling f (definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

  1. an act, deed
  2. action
  3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Etymology

From the verb handla

Pronunciation

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Noun

handling c

  1. an act, a deed
  2. an act, a document
  3. action
  4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
  5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Declension of handling 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative handling handlingen handlingar handlingarna
Genitive handlings handlingens handlingars handlingarnas

Derived terms

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