How to pronounce treatment
American English pronunciation
TREET-munt
- IPA
- /ˈtɹitmənt/
- Syllables
- TREET · munt (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What treatment means
Most people know treatment in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A written outline of a film's story, before the script
In a sentence: Before writing the full script, she sent the studio a ten-page treatment of her movie idea.
Where it comes from: It is treat plus -ment. Treat here has its sense of handling a subject, the way a writer handles a story.
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