Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To have charge of; direct or administer: synonym: conduct.
- intransitive verb To exert control over; regulate or limit toward a desired end.
- intransitive verb To direct or supervise (employees or other staff).
- intransitive verb To act as the manager of (a performer, for example).
- intransitive verb To succeed in accomplishing, achieving, or producing, especially with difficulty.
- intransitive verb To succeed in coping or dealing with.
- intransitive verb To direct or conduct business affairs.
- intransitive verb To continue to get along; carry on; cope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The handling, control, or training of a horse; manège.
- noun A ring for the training of horses and the practice of horsemanship; a riding-school.
- noun In general, training; discipline; treatment.
- noun Management.
- noun Bearing; behavior.
- To wield by hand; guide or direct by use of the hands; hence, to control or regulate by any physical exertion.
- To train by handling or manipulation; drill to certain styles and habits of action; teach by exercise or training, as in the manège.
- To control or direct by administrative ability; regulate or administer; have the guidance or direction of: as, to
manage a theater. - To control, restrain, or lead by keeping in a desired state or condition; direct by influence or persuasion: as, to
manage an angry or an insane person. - To arrange, fashion, contrive, effect, or carry out by skill or art; carry on or along; bring about: as, to
manage the characters of a play, or the plot of a novel; to manage a delicate or perplexing piece of business. - To succeed in contriving; effect by effort, or by action of any kind (in the latter case often ironical): with an infinitive for object: as, to
manage to hold one's own; in his eagerness he managed to lose everything. - Synonyms Manage, Conduct, Direct, handle, superintend, supervise, order, transact. Manage literally implies handling, and hence primarily belongs to smaller concerns, on which one may at all times keep his hand: as, to
manage a house; a manage a theater. Its essential idea is that of constant attention to details: as, only a combination of great abilities with a genius for industry can manage the affairs of an empire. To conduct is to lead along, hence to attend with personal supervision; it implies the determination of the main features of administration and the securing of thoroughness in those who carry out the commands; it is used of both large things and small, but generally refers to a definite task, coming to an end or issue: as, toconduct a religious service, a funeral, a campaign. Direct allows the person directing to be at a distance or near; the word suggests more authority than manage or conduct. - See
govern and guide, v. t. - To direct or conduct affairs; regulate or carry on any business.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See
manege . - intransitive verb To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.
- transitive verb To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
- transitive verb to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.
- transitive verb To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- transitive verb To treat with care; to husband.
- transitive verb To bring about; to contrive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To direct or be in charge of.
- verb transitive To handle or control (a situation, job).
- verb transitive To
handle wth skill,wield (a tool, weapon etc.). - verb intransitive To succeed at an attempt
- verb intransitive To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
- noun The act of
managing orcontrolling something. - noun horseriding
Manège .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb come to terms with
- verb carry on or function
- verb watch and direct
- verb achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
- verb be successful; achieve a goal
- verb be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- verb handle effectively
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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After buying expensive cameras and running around with Austin, the best Grenier can manage is a picture of Brooke Shields leaving a restaurant.
HBO and Adam Grenier turn the camera on a kid paparazzo Hank Stuever 2010
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The most we manage is a beer and pretzels card game at Chinese carry out (fairly regularly).
Children and Games: Changing and Staying the Same « Third Point of Singularity 2010
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She bribes him into getting transportation papers for a refugee, but the best he can manage is papers that require her to be escorted by him.
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My state tends to manage from a carrying capacity perspective.
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Abdicating his war-time leadership role to Congress and the generals is EXACTLY what President Bush did throughout his managing of the Iraq war, falling back again and again on some supposed unwillingness to micro-manage from the Oval office.
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She bribes him into getting transportation papers for a refugee, but the best he can manage is papers that require her to be escorted by him.
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And the best they can ever manage is to lob a few dozen rockets at a Turkish military base before getting slaughtered.
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Someone posed a question to me about the most likely way that a plural marriage law would handle the exponential increase in relationships to manage from a legal perspective.
Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice, Inc. | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2010
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Facebook also is removing regional networks because some of them -- such as China -- consist of millions of users, which makes them nearly impossible to manage from a privacy standpoint.
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My state tends to manage from a carrying capacity perspective.
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