# handling
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhændlɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ, -ændlɪŋ
* Hyphenation: hand‧ling

### Etymology 1

From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).

#### Noun

handling (countable and uncountable, plural handlings)
* A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28:the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister 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.
* (obsolete) The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
** 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.
* (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
** 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Critical Reviews:A miniature […] remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.
* A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.

##### Derived terms

* double-handling
* handling charge
* handling fee
* handling time
* materials handling
* puck handling
* puck-handling
* request-handling
* shipping and handling
* special handling unit

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From handle.

#### Verb

handling
* present participle and gerund of handle

## Danish
### Noun

handling
* action, act

#### Declension
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From handle +‎ -ing.

### Noun

handling f or m (definite singular handlinga or handlingen, indefinite plural handlinger, definite plural handlingene)
* an act, deed
* action
* the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
* 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)
* an act, deed
* action
* the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
* shopping; the action of visiting shops

#### Derived terms

* terrorhandling
* valdshandling

### References

* “handling” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English handling.

### Noun

handling n (uncountable)
* baggage handling in the airport

#### Declension
### References

* handling in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Swedish
### Etymology

handla +‎ -ing

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

handling c
* an act, a deed
* an act, a document
* action
* the plot or storyline, in a work of fiction
* shopping; the action of visiting shops

#### Derived terms

* terrorhandling