treatment
an act or manner of treating.
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.
Origin of treatment
1Other words for treatment
Other words from treatment
- non·treat·ment, noun
- o·ver·treat·ment, noun
- post·treat·ment, adjective
- self-treatment, noun
Words Nearby treatment
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How to use treatment in a sentence
The woman was rushed to a hospital about 20 miles away, resulting in about a one-hour delay in treatment.
Patient dies after ransomware attack reroutes her to remote hospital | Dan Goodin | September 17, 2020 | Ars TechnicaMany come in from residential treatment centers or had run away from their placements, he said.
Hundreds of Children Are Stuck in Psychiatric Hospitals Each Year Despite the State’s Promises to Find Them Homes | by Duaa Eldeib | September 11, 2020 | ProPublicaThe US Food and Drug Administration approves new treatments.
Times of strife can lead to medical innovation—when governments are willing | By Jeffrey Clemens/The Conversation | September 9, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAfter some resistance, Moscow allowed him to be flown to Berlin’s Charité hospital for treatment.
Trump has long wanted to kill a Russia-Germany natural gas pipeline. Navalny’s poisoning could do it for him | David Meyer | September 8, 2020 | FortuneDellaire recommends at least secondary treatment of wastewater or—even better—UV or ozone treatment, which he says destroys up to 99% of pathogens.
Everything we know—and don’t know—about human-to-animal COVID transmission | jakemeth | September 4, 2020 | Fortune
British Dictionary definitions for treatment
/ (ˈtriːtmənt) /
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 Idioms and Phrases with treatment
see red carpet (treatment).
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