deal with sb
— phrasal verb with deal uk/diːl/us/diːl/verb [ I or T ] dealt, dealt
B2 to talk to someone or meet someone, especially as part of your job:
She's used to dealing with difficult customers.
More examples
- They employed him because of his reputed skill in dealing with the press.
- I admire her forthright way of dealing with people.
- Mr. Nixon may well have had a no-holds-barred approach to dealing with political adversaries.
- You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids.
- She's very adept at dealing with the media.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Meeting people
- appointment
- conclave
- cross
- cross sb's path/cross paths with sb idiom
- deal
- gathering
- hello
- hook
- hook up
- how are things (with you)? idiom
- how do you do? idiom
- it's a date idiom
- known
- massed
- meet
- meeting point
- muster point
- rally
- run across sb
- tryst
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