Translation of "取り扱いを決めて物事の決まりをつけること。"


I searched for the meaning of 処分{しょぶん} in `dictionary.goo.ne.jp` and I come up
with this:

> 取り扱いを決めて物事の決まりをつけること。...

to me, it seem like "handling things" but I can't put above sentence into
plain English.

remark, these are what I believe to be meaning of words in above sentence from
Jim Breen's WWWJDIC

> 取り扱い :(n) treatment; service; handling; management;
>
> 決める : (v1,vt) (1) to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind;
> to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to
> appoint; to fix;
>
> つける (v1,vt) to turn on; to switch on; to light up; KD




I translated 取り扱いを決めて物事の決まりをつけること as "to decide the treatment for the thing
and to determine the way for the thing" but this sentence is circumlocutory.
And つける in 決まりをつける doesn't mean "to switch on" but "get determined".

When 処分 is used for persons, it means punishment like 彼は規則を破ったために処分を受けた(He
received punishment for breaking a rule).

When 処分 is used for material goods, it means "to get rid" like "discard" and
"sell out".




I translated 取り扱いを決めて物事の決まりをつけること as "to decide the treatment for the thing
and to determine the way for the thing" but this sentence is circumlocutory.
And つける in 決まりをつける doesn't mean "to switch on" but "get determined".

When 処分 is used for persons, it means punishment like 彼は規則を破ったために処分を受けた(He
received punishment for breaking a rule).

When 処分 is used for material goods, it means "to get rid" like "discard" and
"sell out".

