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say it: HAND-ling
handling is a noun meaning "manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something". It is pronounced /ˈhændlɪŋ/ — HAND-ling. It carries 3 recorded senses.
manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
the management of someone or something
“the handling of prisoners”
“the treatment of water sewage”
“the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for handling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.