b: a process by which something is handled in a commercial transactionespecially: the packaging and shipping of an object or material (as to a consumer)
2: the manner in which something is treated (as in a musical, literary, or art work)
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First Known Use of handling
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a