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/mˈænədʒ/ /mˈænɪdʒ/ Listen

verb

Manage v. t. (past & past part. managed; pres. part. managing)

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."

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." "It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant."

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

To treat with care; to husband.

To bring about; to contrive.

Synonyms: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.

Manage v. i. To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. "Leave them to manage for thee."

noun

Manage n. 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 Phaethon Wanting the manage of unruly jades." "The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl." Note: This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been displaced by manege; in its more general meaning, by management.

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... and argued with him, but to no avail. All his earnings and all he could raise, he invested in the mine. His employers were annoyed and he was dismissed. Nothing daunted, he went off to the mine and offered to manage it for nothing, telling the directors he would make it pay. They laughed at him, but finally gave way, especially as his holding was large enough to entitle him to a seat at the board. Two months ...

— Australia Revenged • Boomerang

... beside himself with joy at having me here. It is fame." He drank a cup of tea and continued: "Almost his first words were to ask me if I would like to see the body of the murdered man—if so, he thought he could manage it for me. He is as keen as a razor. The body lies in Dr. Stock's surgery, you know, down in the village, exactly as it was when found. It's to be post-mortem'd this morning, by the way, so I was only just in time. Well, he ran me down here to the doctor's, giving me ...

— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley

... by Tony, was towed to the shore, where an abundance of rocks were to be had. It was their intention to load it with "lighthouse material," and tow it to the island. It required all their skill to accomplish this object, for the raft was a most ungainly thing to manage. The Zephyr was so long that they could not row round so as to bring the raft alongside the bank, and when they attempted to push it in, the paint, and even the planks of ...

— All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake - A Sequel to "The Boat Club" • Oliver Optic

... said, "You bet. I'll catch that Fudge and his money yet. He's rich enough to keep me in clothes, And I think I could manage him as I chose. He could aid my father as well as not, And buy my brother a splendid yacht. My mother for money should never fret, And all it cried for the baby should get; And after that, with what he could spare, I'd make a show ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various

... so wild that it's as much as I can do to manage him at all. He'd destroy himself and me too, if I attempted to ride him at such a rattletrap ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

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