manage

[ManĀ·age]

To manage is to skillfully handle something. If you can barely manage to keep your goldfish alive, you should probably think twice about adopting those Golden Retriever puppies.

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The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

Verb
be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can''t handle nuts"; "She managed her parents'' affairs after they got too old"

Verb
watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?"

Verb
be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs"

Verb
carry on or manage; "We could do with a little more help around here"

Verb
achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

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Verb
come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"


n.
The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

n.
To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

n.
Hence: Esp., 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.

n.
To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

n.
To treat with care; to husband.

n.
To bring about; to contrive.

v. i.
To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.


Manage

Man"age , n. [F. man'8age, It. maneggio, fr. maneggiare to manage, fr. L.manushand. Perhaps somewhat influenced by F. m'82nage housekeeping, OF. mesnage, akin to E. mansion. See Manual, and cf. Manege.] The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.]
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
Down, down I come; like glistering Pha'89thon
Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak.
The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.
&hand; This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been displaced by manege; in its more general meaning, by management.

Manage

Man"age , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Managing .] [From Manage, n.] 1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.
What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.
2. Hence: Esp., 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.
It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
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It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.
3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action. 4. To treat with care; to husband. Dryden. 5. To bring about; to contrive. Shak. Syn. -- To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.

Manage

Man"age, v. i. To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.
Leave them to manage for thee.
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The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

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Usage Examples

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

I manage to hide in my movies.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

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