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Manage   /mˈænədʒ/  /mˈænɪdʒ/   Listen
Manage

verb
(past & past part. managed; pres. part. managing)
1.
Be successful; achieve a goal.  Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off.  "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"  Antonym: fail.
2.
Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.  Synonyms: care, deal, handle.  "This blender can't handle nuts" , "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
3.
Come to terms with.  Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out.  "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
4.
Watch and direct.  Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise.
5.
Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.  Synonyms: finagle, wangle.
6.
Carry on or function.  Synonym: do.
7.
Handle effectively.  Synonyms: handle, wield.  "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well"



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"Manage" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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