0 past simple and past participle of handle
1 to deal with, have responsibility for, or be in charge of:
2 to pick something up and touch, hold, or move it with your hands:
3 to operate or control something that could be difficult or dangerous:
This is a very delicate situation and it needs to be handled sensitively.
Only some of the bank's lending operations are handled directly by the manager.
The president has been criticized for the way he has handled the whole affair.
The customer services department handles any customer complaints.
So far, he seems to be handling the job well, but it's really too soon to judge.
It is shown that for applications belonging to this class the dialogue can be handled using fairly simple means.
Rather, we point out those cases that evidently must be handled by the novel mechanism of sympathy theory.
In general, the various nodes are handled by different authorities having different administrative policies and security requirements.