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To act or behave toward (a person, animal, etc.) in a specified manner. Webster's New World. To regard and handle in a certain way.

a. : the act of providing another with free food, drink, or entertainment. dinner will be my treat. b. : an entertainment given without expense to those invited.

It's my treat!: I will pay! idiom. a treat: a gift, a present, a pleasure, a delight noun. "I propose we meet to discuss this over dinner, maybe Friday night...and it's my treat."

ˈtrik-ər-ˈtrēt. : a Halloween practice in which children wearing costumes go from door to door in a neighborhood saying "trick or treat" when a door is opened to ask for treats with the implied threat of playing tricks on those who refuse.

“I'm paying.” E.g. if we're having dinner, and I pay for both of us, then “I'm treating you” or “It's my treat.”

Etymology. From Middle English treten, from Anglo-Norman treter, Old French tretier, traiter, from Latin tractāre (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”).

treat verb (DEAL WITH)

to behave towards someone or deal with something in a particular way: My parents treated us all the same when we were kids. He treated his wife very badly. treat someone/something as if It's wrong to treat animals as if they had no feelings.

A treat is something enjoyable, delectable, special. So it means it's always a pleasure (to meet someone, usually).

verb. If you treat someone or something in a particular way, you behave towards them or deal with them in that way.

To treat yourself means to do something good and pleasurable for yourself, but not something necessary. Something you do just for the enjoyment of it. You might treat yourself to an ice cream cone one night. This is something you do just for the pleasure—there really is no other reason to eat ice cream.

What does treat mean in health? ›

A treatment is something that health care providers do for their patients to control a health problem, lessen its symptoms, or clear it up. Treatments can include medicine, therapy, surgery, or other approaches.

Something out of the ordinary that brought you joy or happiness. A treat can also be a sweet or a candy, and then you likely would not refer to it as a treat except maybe on Halloween when people are saying “Trick or Treat”. Thanks for inviting me to dinner. It was a real treat!

Treat people with courtesy and politeness.

Be sure to make requests of people and not demands. Having good manners is as simple as saying "thank you" and "please" when you're requesting something from another person. Having good manners shows that you respect their time and effort to help you.

If you give someone a treat, you buy or arrange something special for them which they will enjoy. [...] See full entry for 'treat' Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.

If someone asked for a treat, it wouldn't normally be taken to be a request for a birthday party. It has more the sense of a personal gift for whoever is receiving the treat. So "we want a treat" here means: "we want you to host a party", not "we want you to give us something nice (to eat or drink)"?

These days, it tends to mean “something enjoyable that you don't get every day”, which of course can certainly mean “someone else is paying for it” as well. So a child who did well at school might get an ice-cream on the way home as a “treat”. A “birthday treat”, therefore, is something enjoyable you d.

Sure, here are a few possible responses when someone asks you for a treat: "Of course, let's treat ourselves!" "Sounds like a delicious idea!" "Sure thing, let's indulge a little."

Whereas a party making a contractual offer is willing to be legally bound by that contract, if there's an 'invitation to treat', this means there's an intention to negotiate but not to be legally bound yet. Instead, an invitation to treat means that there's an invitation for the other party to make an offer.