English

Noun

handling ‎(countable and uncountable, plural handlings)

1. A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
   • Edmund Spenser

     The heavens and your fair handling / Have made you master of the field this day.

   • 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives

     […] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.

2. (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

3. A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

Derived terms

• handling charge
• handling fee

Translations

Etymology 2

From handle.

Verb

handling

1. present participle of handle

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing

Noun

handling f, m ‎(definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• voldshandling

References

• “handling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing

Noun

handling f ‎(definite singular handlinga, indefinite plural handlingar, definite plural handlingane)

1. an act, deed
2. action
3. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
4. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Derived terms

• terrorhandling
• valdshandling

References

• “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From the verb handla

Pronunciation

Noun

handling c

1. an act, a deed
2. an act, a document
3. action
4. the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
5. shopping; the action of visiting shops

Declension

Derived terms

• terrorhandling