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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Treatment \Treat"ment\, noun [Cf. F. traitement. See {Treat}.]
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.]
Accept such treatment as a swain affords. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
treatment
noun
1: care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury
2: 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" [syn: {handling}]
3: a manner of dealing with something artistically; "his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture"
4: 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" [syn: {discussion}, {discourse}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
144 Moby Thesaurus words for "treatment": airing, analysis, arrangement, article, atmosphere, balance, basic training, briefing, brushwork, buzz session, canvassing, care, causerie, clearing the decks, colloquium, color, composition, conference, consideration, curative measures, cure, curing, custodianship, debate, debating, deliberation, descant, design, dialectic, dialogue, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, draftsmanship, equipment, essay, etude, examination, exchange of views, excursus, exposition, familiarization, feature, first aid, first approach, fixing, forum, foundation, groundwork, grouping, handling, healing, healing arts, homily, hospitalization, introductory study, investigation, joint discussion, line, logical analysis, logical discussion, lucubration, makeready, making ready, management, manufacture, means of dealing, medical care, medical treatment, medicamentation, medication, medicines, memoir, mobilization, monograph, morceau, note, open discussion, open forum, outline, painterliness, pandect, panel discussion, paper, paragraph, perspective, piece, planning, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, preliminary study, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, prolegomenon, propaedeutic, provision, psychotherapy, rap, rap session, readying, regime, regimen, research paper, review, screed, seminar, shading, shadow, sketch, spadework, special article, stewardship, study, survey, symposium, technique, term paper, theme, therapeusis, therapeutics, therapy, thesis, tone, town meeting, tract, tractate, training, treatise, trial, tryout, usage, values, ventilation, warm-up
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