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Treatment   /trˈitmənt/   Listen
Treatment

noun
1.
Care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury).  Synonym: intervention.
2.
The management of someone or something.  Synonym: handling.  "The treatment of water sewage" , "The right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"
3.
A manner of dealing with something artistically.
4.
An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic.  Synonyms: discourse, discussion.  "His treatment of the race question is badly biased"



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"Treatment" Quotes from Famous Books



... Colonel Georges," continued the count, "that the Court of Peers is at this very time inquiring into a conspiracy which has made the government extremely severe in its treatment of French soldiers who bear arms against France, and who deal in foreign intrigues for the purpose of overthrowing our ...
— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac
... you know there are some things as bad almost to be suspected of as to have done, and the country gentlemen chose to suspect him. They did not like him, you see. His politics vexed them; and he resented their treatment of his wife—though I really think, poor Silas, he did not care a pin about her—and he annoyed them whenever he could. Your papa, you know, is very proud of his family—he never had the ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... this time, when he was on rather cool terms with Lindsay. The case proved to be an interesting one, however. There were nervous complications; it could not be diagnosed at a glance. After spending half an hour in making a careful examination, he gave the woman a preliminary treatment, and dismissed her with directions ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... not do them much harm, possibly because they knew that Crazy Horse was not far off. His name was held in wholesome respect. From time to time, delegations of friendly Indians were sent to him, to urge him to come in to the reservation, promising a full hearing and fair treatment. ...
— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
... for it but to lie still, and trust to his not being seen, when the next minutes were made agreeable by a host of recollections regarding the treatment received by those who betrayed smugglers, of the desperate fights there had been, how many had been killed, and a shudder ran through the lad as he recalled the story of a man who had played the spy, somewhere about the south coast, ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn


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