dealing
noun
1 her husband took to drink and dishonest dealing:
business methods, business practices, business, commerce, trading, trafficking, marketing, merchandising, transactions, financial transactions;
behavior, conduct, actions, policy.
2 (dealings) the government lacked diplomatic skill in its dealings with Washington:
relations, relationship, association, connections, contact, intercourse, interchange, communication, negotiations, bargaining, operations, transactions, proceedings;
trade, trading, business, commerce, traffic, trafficking;
informal truck, doings.