dealings

dealings
    n 1: social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
         [syn: {dealings}, {traffic}]
    2: mutual dealings or connections or communications among
       persons or groups [syn: {relations}, {dealings}]
    3: the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying
       on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible
       without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with
       me" [syn: {transaction}, {dealing}, {dealings}]
    

DEALINGS. Traffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more 
persons. 
     2. The English statute 6 Geo. IV. c. 16, s. 81, declares all dealings 
with a bankrupt, within a certain time immediately before his bankruptcy, to 
be void. It has been held, under this statute, that payments were included 
under the term "dealings." M. & M. 137; 3 Car. & P. 85; S. C. 14 Eng. C. L. 
R. 219. 
    

157 Moby Thesaurus words for "dealings":
      ESP, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accord, achievement, act,
      acta, action, addition, adjunct, adventure, affairs, affiliation,
      affinity, alliance, answer, approximation, assemblage, association,
      balance of trade, big business, blow, bond, business,
      business dealings, circumstances, closeness, combination, commerce,
      commercial affairs, commercial relations, communication, communion,
      concerns, condition of things, conditions, congress, connectedness,
      connection, contact, contiguity, contrariety, conversation,
      converse, correspondence, coup, dealing, deduction, deed,
      disjunction, doing, doings, effort, endeavor, enterprise, exchange,
      exploit, fair trade, fait accompli, feat, filiation, free trade,
      gest, go, goings-on, hand, handiwork, homology, industry,
      information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication,
      intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, intimacy, job, junction,
      liaison, life, linguistic intercourse, link, linkage, linking,
      maneuver, march of events, market, marketing, matters, measure,
      mercantile business, merchantry, message, move, multilateral trade,
      mutual attraction, nearness, negotiations, operation, overt act,
      passage, performance, proceeding, proceedings, production,
      propinquity, proximity, rapport, reciprocal trade, relatedness,
      relation, relations, relationship, reply, res gestae, response,
      restraint of trade, run of things, similarity, small business,
      social intercourse, speaking, speech, speech circuit,
      speech situation, state of affairs, step, stroke, stunt, sympathy,
      talking, telepathy, the business world, the marketplace, the times,
      the world, thing, thing done, things, tie, tie-in, touch,
      tour de force, trade, traffic, transaction, transactions, truck,
      turn, two-way communication, undertaking, unilateral trade, union,
      what happens, work, works