To come to terms or deal successfully with; SYN. get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage.

1. To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with.
2. When you deal with a project or a problem, you do what you must do to complete the project or to solve the problem.
3. When a book, film, article, speech, and so on, deals with a certain subject, that is what it is about.