HANDLED | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of handled in English handled Add to word list Add to word list past simple and past participle of handle handleverb uk /ˈhæn.dəl/ us /ˈhæn.dəl/

handle verb (DEAL WITH)

B1 [ T ] to deal with, have responsibility for, or be in charge of: I thought he handled the situation very well. Some people are brilliant with computers, but have no idea how to handle (= behave with) other people. If you can't handle the job I'll get someone else to do it. Who handles the marketing in your company?

• This is a very delicate situation and it needs to be handled sensitively.
• Only some of the bank's lending operations are handled directly by the manager.
• The president has been criticized for the way he has handled the whole affair.
• The customer services department handles any customer complaints.
• So far, he seems to be handling the job well, but it's really too soon to judge.

Dealing with things or people

• addressable
• approach
• attack
• attend to someone/something phrasal verb
• be all over it idiom
• beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
• bed
• cut
• go at someone phrasal verb
• grip
• have it out with someone idiom
• hold
• hold on idiom
• I/I've got this idiom
• square
• take (something) over phrasal verb
• tend to someone/something phrasal verb
• to get a handle on something idiom
• to have a handle on something idiom
• turn to someone phrasal verb

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handle verb (TOUCH)

C2 [ T ] to pick something up and touch, hold, or move it with your hands: Always wash your hands before handling food. Please don't handle the vases - they're very fragile. Touching & feeling

• arm
• belly rub
• brush against someone/something
• dab at something
• diddle
• feel around for something
• felt
• finger
• graze
• handle
• kinaesthesia
• kiss
• noncontact
• nudge
• over-handle
• physical contact
• play with something phrasal verb
• prink
• toy
• twiddle

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handle verb (OPERATE)

[ T ] to operate or control something that could be difficult or dangerous: Have you ever handled a gun before? [ I usually + adv/prep ] If a car handles well, it is easy and pleasant to drive. Controlling and being in charge

• agentive
• aggrandize
• assert your authority
• assume
• assumption
• gatekeeping
• get the better of someone idiom
• get your hooks into someone/something idiom
• get/fall into the wrong hands idiom
• govern
• paternalism
• paternalist
• paternalistic
• paternalistically
• peremptorily
• tame
• wear the trousers idiom
• well in hand
• what someone says, goes idiom
• wrangler

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On the road: driving & operating road vehicles

handle verb (SELL)

[ T ] to buy and sell goods: We only handle cosmetics that have not been tested on animals.mainly UK He's been arrested for handling stolen goods. Buying & selling - general words

• all-you-can-eat
• anti-consumer
• anti-dumping
• back order
• barter
• dealership
• desk research
• distribution channel
• do business with someone/something
• dumping
• ebay
• hock
• package deal
• pawn
• pre-emption
• pre-order
• procurement
• tender
• the bottom drops/falls out of the market idiom
• window shopping

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Examples of handled

handled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is shown that for applications belonging to this class the dialogue can be handled using fairly simple means. From the Cambridge English Corpus Rather, we point out those cases that evidently must be handled by the novel mechanism of sympathy theory. From the Cambridge English Corpus In general, the various nodes are handled by different authorities having different administrative policies and security requirements. From the Cambridge English Corpus Most adolescents also reported that their parents trusted how they handled their schoolwork. From the Cambridge English Corpus The user's code does not need to change when using these features, it is all handled through data files at runtime. From the Cambridge English Corpus Recursive object type expressions are handled by unfolding. From the Cambridge English Corpus Chickens, feed and water equipment were handled with gloved and 70 % alcohol-disinfected hands to prevent the spreading of microorganisms between pens. From the Cambridge English Corpus Before 1963 there was no full-time manager, administrative duties being handled by a secretary and volunteers who staffed the headquarters and the clinics. From the Cambridge English Corpus This has led to the design and implementation of coordination models that seek to formally define how dependencies between parallel activities shall be handled. From the Cambridge English Corpus If this situation can be handled implicitly and unconsciously, there is no time when consciousness would be needed. From the Cambridge English Corpus A surgery handled the more extreme therapeutic interventions, while experiments with drug therapies were performed in a more naturalistic setting, but under closely controlled conditions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Our work has compared case and control kitchens in terms of foods handled, food hygiene precautions and microbiology. From the Cambridge English Corpus For this reason, we handled all comparisons to the neutral baseline in post-hoc analyses and presented the results with a degree of skepticism. From the Cambridge English Corpus Only several papers22, 24, 25 handled the issue of flexible time-varying systems. From the Cambridge English Corpus How can peripheral linguistic phenomena be handled better while increasing the core grammar is made more flexible and its integrity preserved? From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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• handle
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  • Verb 
    • handle (DEAL WITH)
    • handle (TOUCH)
    • handle (OPERATE)
    • handle (SELL)
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