0 to talk to someone or meet someone, especially as part of your job:
1 to behave towards and talk to someone in an effective way:
They employed him because of his reputed skill in dealing with the press.
I admire her forthright way of dealing with people.
Mr. Nixon may well have had a no-holds-barred approach to dealing with political adversaries.
You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids.