treater

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treat

(trēt)

v. treat·ed, treat·ing, treats

v.tr.

1. To act or behave in a specified manner toward: treated me fairly.

2. To regard and handle in a certain way. Often used with as: treated the matter as a joke.

3. To deal with in writing or speech; discuss: a book that treats all aspects of health care.

4. To deal with or represent artistically in a specified manner or style: treats the subject poetically.

a. To provide with food, entertainment, or gifts at one's own expense: treated her sister to the theater.

b. To give (someone or oneself) something pleasurable: treated herself to a day in the country.

6. To subject to a process, action, or change, especially to a chemical or physical process or application: treated the cloth with bleach.

a. To give medical aid to (someone): treated many patients in the emergency room.

b. To give medical aid to counteract (a disease or condition): treated malaria with quinine.

v.intr.

1. To deal with a subject or topic in writing or speech. Often used with of: The essay treats of courtly love.

2. To pay for another's entertainment, food, or drink.

3. To engage in negotiations, as to reach a settlement or agree on terms: "Both sides nonetheless are quite willing to treat with [the king]" (Gregory J. Wallance).

1. Something, such as one's food or entertainment, that is paid for by someone else.

2. A source of a special delight or pleasure: His trip abroad was a real treat.

[Middle English tretien, from Old French traitier, from Latin tractāre, frequentative of trahere, to draw.]

treat′er n.

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Noun

treater - someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)

negotiant, negotiator

communicator - a person who communicates with others

go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator, mediator - a negotiator who acts as a link between parties

bargainer - negotiator of the terms of a transaction; "he is a hard bargainer"

compromiser - a negotiator willing to compromise; "Henry Clay was known as the Great Compromiser"

holdout - a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms; "their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks"

negotiatress, negotiatrix - a woman negotiator

representative - a person who represents others

settler - a negotiator who settles disputes

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"The rabble by shouting and noise having increased their numbers to several thousands, they began with Sir Patrick Johnston, who was one of the treaters, and the year before had been Lord Provost.

About one o'clock in the morning a battalion of the guards entered the town, marched up to the Parliament Close, and took post in all the avenues of the city, which prevented the resolutions taken to insult the houses of the rest of the treaters. The rabble were entirely reduced by this, and gradually dispersed, and so the tumult ended."

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