treat someone with kid gloves
treat
noun
us/trit/

treatnoun (SPECIAL EXPERIENCE)

[ C ]
a special and enjoyable occasion or experience:
It was a real treat seeing my old friends last weekend.

treatnoun (PAYMENT)

[ U ]
an occasion on which you pay for someone's food or entertainment:
You paid for the taxi, so lunch is my treat (= I will pay).

treat | Business English

treat
verb[ T ]
uk /triːt/us
to behave towards or think of someone or something in a particular way:
treat sb/sth as sthWe must treat employees as allies in achieving change.
treat sb/sth equally/fairly/unfairlyIt very hard to prove that the company had been treated unfairly.
treat sb/sth like sthThe company treated their initial public offering more like a marketing opportunity than a capital-raising exercise.
to deal with something in a particular way:
Each Fund is treated as a single tax entity.
The employment department said the unemployment figures should be treated with caution.
PRODUCTION
to put a special substance on something or put it through a special process, in order to protect it, clean it, or make it safe:
treat sth with sthWe treat the material with resin to make it waterproof.

Examples of treat

treat
It is especially worth noting that in the market, the price of organic food is at least twice that of food treated with chemicals.
In so doing, he treats the parties' identities as having been established.
A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of all survey participants.
The environments were considered as random variables while the genotypes were treated as fixed variables.
All patients were treated just after the clinical diagnosis of plague (bubonic plague with cervical, inguinal or axillary buboes) and all patients recovered subsequently.
Part of hospitals' revenues was then made dependent upon the number of patients treated and the patient mix.
So how are we to understand the aspiration to reconcile themes, which have typically been treated as incompatible?
One-time expenditure on screening could be substantially offset by savings in treating cancer cases in the long-term.
The main limitations in treating metastatic disease include poor vector transduction efficiencies and difficulties in targeting remote tumour cells with systemic vector delivery.
This figure is known as the 'intent to treat' effect.
Simultaneously with the testing of pharmacokinetic properties, pharmacodynamic characteristics are also typically investigated in models of the disease the agent is intended to treat.
Fourth, it is unclear how mono-lesion cases should be treated.
Over 10 different surgical methods are available to treat obesity, and there are several variants of these methods.
In a randomized placebo controlled trial, clinician-rated goal attainment scaling significantly distinguished the treated from the placebo group.
Patients were treated with different psychotropic drugs prior to the study.
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