treatment
noun/ˈtɹiːtmənt/
Etymology From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.
7 senses
- 1The process or manner of treating someone or something.
- 2Medical care for an illness or injury.
- 3The use of a substance or process to preserve or give…
- 4A treatise; a formal written description or characterizat…
- 5A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
- 6entertainment; treat
- 7harsh punishment; retribution
1
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
- He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
2
Medical care for an illness or injury.
- A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
- Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
1 more example
- The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
3
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4
A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
5
Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
6
Obsolete entertainment; treat
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
7
Euphemistic harsh punishment; retribution
- He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.
- Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.
- Derived terms
44 terms
absent treatment, adjunct treatment, antitreatment, biotreatment, cold treatment, conservative treatment, cotreatment, definitive treatment, error treatment, exposure treatment, flour treatment agent, give the royal treatment, hairdryer treatment, heat treatment, hydrotreatment, ill treatment, ill-treatment, intensive treatment, intertreatment, medication assisted treatment, medication-assisted treatment, Nauheim treatment, nontreatment, overtreatment, phototreatment, phytotreatment, posttreatment, preferential treatment, pretreatment, residential treatment, re-treatment, retreatment, scriptment, self-treatment, shock treatment, silent treatment, special treatment, subtreatment, trauma-informed stabilization treatment, treatment-naïve, tweakment, undertreatment, wilderness treatment center, window treatment- Related terms
- treat