Meaning

(intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
2. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
3. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
4. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
5. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
6. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.
7. (UK politics, law) To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter.
8. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.

Example Sentences

Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. 'Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked.

After all, in this hideous war we have just passed through never forget that Halifax would have treated with Hitler: it took Churchill to refuse.

I wouldn't promote businesses I considered immoral – ambulance-chasing lawyers or online roulette for example – but I've got nothing against computer or software manufacture: they're important and any reputable company in that industry is welcome to treat for my services.

Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty.

Now of love they treat.

And, indeed, should the excellent Mr Broughton be prevailed on to set fist to paper, and to complete the above-said rudiments, by delivering down the true principles of athletics, I question whether the world will have any cause to lament, that none of the great writers, either antient or modern, have ever treated about that noble and useful art.

Rhetoric includes the earliest known theory on the proper use of metaphor; On Poetics treats the role of symbolism in drama and poetry.

The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement.

Word Forms

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Use treat when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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