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treatment
[ treet-muhnt ]
noun
- an act or manner of treating.
Synonyms: approach, conduct, management, handling
- action or behavior toward a person, animal, etc.
- management in the application of medicines, surgery, etc.
- literary or artistic handling, especially with reference to style.
- subjection to some agent or action.
- Movies, Television. a preliminary outline of a film or teleplay laying out the key scenes, characters, and locales.
treatment
/ ˈtriːtmənt /
noun
- the application of medicines, surgery, psychotherapy, etc, to a patient or to a disease or symptom
- the manner of handling or dealing with a person or thing, as in a literary or artistic work
- the act, practice, or manner of treating
- films an expansion of a script into sequence form, indicating camera angles, dialogue, etc
- the treatment slang.the usual manner of dealing with a particular type of person (esp in the phrase give someone the ( full ) treatment )
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Other Words From
- non·treatment noun
- over·treatment noun
- post·treatment adjective
- self-treatment noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of treatment1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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