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handle Noun

— A handle is the part of an object that you hold with your hand when you want to use or move the object. Some examples of handles are: the shaft of a sword, the knob of a door, etc. I grabbed the handle on the drawer and opened it. — A handle is a nickname or pseudonym. — A handle is a 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. — A handle is a 1.75-liter (half-gallon) bottle of alcohol.

handle Verb

— If you handle something, you touch it, you feel it with your hand. — How you handle an object is how you use it. You handle that gun pretty well. — To give and take; to have something pass through your hands; to buy and sell As a cashier, I handle money every day. That store handles many different items. — To deal with; to make a business of. They that handle the law knew me not - Jeremiah, 2:8 — To treat; to use, well or ill. How were you handled in prison? — To manage; to control; to practice skill upon. It won't be easy, but I think I can handle it.

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Once, I heard a dreadful story of a breech birth which a traditional midwife did not know how to handle.

It would be better to improve financial-market regulation directly and let national tax systems handle banks' income like that of any other industry.

The regime is under growing pressure from those at the bottom of North Korean society, and recognizes its own inability to handle the situation.

A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.

As a result, he will be poorly placed to handle the challenges ahead, the most intractable of which will be the European Union's new Constitution.

No single economic space has ever been created without the parallel establishment of solidarity mechanisms to handle these risks and care for those left behind.

In other words, not even Germany can handle all of Europe's refugees today.

If Europe has trouble absorbing a million refugees, how will it eventually handle 20 million?

Americans see a total inability by Europe to handle immigration in ways that encourage dynamism and diversity instead of antagonism and higher state spending.

And some analysts in Seoul believe that a dicey political succession in Pyongyang, combined with food shortages in the countryside, could prove too much for the North Korean regime to handle.

Thailand, for instance, established the Bangkok International Banking Facilities in the hope of becoming a regional financial center, despite the fact that local financial institutions were ill-prepared to handle massive flows of capital.

Otherwise, they could end up without any handle on the Iranian nuclear program, and only one - useless - option left, a military strike.

Such changes can be traumatic, and markets often do not handle them well.

Radicals used to learn to handle a Kalashnikov and hijack planes with the Palestinians.

Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.

To give students the best possible chance to succeed, education must prepare them to handle issues that transcend national boundaries.

Mrs. Maria Schaumayer, the former head of the Austrian central bank, will head a new office to handle the issue of compensating the victims.

We have constructed it from unfortunate habits of thought about how to handle spiraling public debt.

The potential for a plunge into chaos obliges us to consider once again how best to handle the Balkan tinderbox.

While modern central banks had difficulty in dealing with inflationary shocks, it had been generations since they had seen a deflationary shock that they could not handle.

Those moves suggest that Tibet has become an increasingly serious concern for China's rulers, one that they have not yet found ways to handle without damaging their standing in Tibet and around the world.

But Cameron also knows that he must handle the negotiations with care.