Definitions for treatment
ˈtrit mənttreat·ment

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. treatment, interventionnoun

   care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

2. treatment, handlingnoun

   the management of someone or something

   "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system"

3. treatmentnoun

   a manner of dealing with something artistically

   "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"

4. discussion, treatment, discoursenoun

   an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

   "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. treatmentnoun

   The process or manner of treating someone or something.

2. treatmentnoun

   Medical care for an illness or injury.

3. treatmentnoun

   The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.

4. treatmentnoun

   A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Treatmentnoun

   the act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment

2. Treatmentnoun

   entertainment; treat

Matched Categories

1. • Artistic Style
   • Communication
   • Management

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'treatment' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #785

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'treatment' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2046

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'treatment' in Nouns Frequency: #326

How to pronounce treatment?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of treatment in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of treatment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of treatment in a Sentence

1. Paul Voutier:

   And the treatment for fall armyworm has the awful combination of being both costly and difficult.

2. Jerome Gabard:

   This will probably be a last-resort treatment, after three or four lines of antibiotics have been tried, it will be for fighting multi-drug resistant strains that are not cured by antibiotics.

3. Sandra Horning:

   These are the first positive Phase III survival results for any immunotherapy-based combination in the initial treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.

4. Anuj Somany:

   Wondering if the amount of money they spend so lavishly on advertisement showing patient's picture and seeking donation through it, is in itself not sufficient to provide proper treatment to those aged people and ailing children.

5. Glenn Flux:

   If we personalize treatment according to the radiation dose delivered to the tumor, then we should have a better outcome, i think it will have a huge impact.

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