Manage
['mænɪdʒ]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Stan--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Raymond
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Conduct, direct, regulate, superintend, supervise, administer, carry on, have the charge of.[2]. Rule (with address or artifice), control, govern, guide.[3]. Wield, handle.
v. n. Manœuvre, concert measures, contrive ways, direct affairs, pull the wires or strings.
Typist: Richard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Handle, manipulate, control, conduct, administer, mould, regulate, contrive,train, husband, direct, wield
ANT:Mismanage, misconduct, upset, derange, misuse
Editor: Matt
Definition
v.t. to guide by use of the hands: to have under command or control: to bring round to one's plans: to conduct with great carefulness: to wield: to handle: to contrive: to train by exercise as a horse.—v.i. to conduct affairs.—n. Manageabil′ity the quality of being manageable.—adj. Man′ageable that can be managed: governable.—n. Man′ageableness.—adv. Man′ageably.—ns. Man′agement art or act of managing: manner of directing or of using anything: administration: skilful treatment: a body of managers; Man′ager one who manages: a person who controls a business or other concern.—adj. Managē′rial of or pertaining to a manager or to management.
Inputed by Evelyn
Examples
- True, I have a daughter, but it needs a man to manage my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Could you manage that, think you, Lucy, and make me ever grateful? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There were not men enough in the army to manage that train without the help of Mexicans who had learned how. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- None of them knew Dodo as well as she did, or knew how to manage her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He will manage her, if any one can. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I'll manage the rest. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We had already managed to get pretty high vacua, and we thought, maybe, the filament would be stable. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I am sure I managed very well before we were married. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mrs. Godfrey managed our little treaty. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I scarcely knew how to accost her; she was not to be managed like another child. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Remember, I managed the matter of my own free will before. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She had great pleasure in feeling her usefulness, but could not conceive how they would have managed without her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What is your great mode of smoothing and managing, Tom? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If you'll go on managing capitally, I'll go on doing my part. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And it would, I think, be beneficial to you: it would be an advantageous way of managing the land which I mean to be yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His mother was of sturdier stuff, passionately patriotic and a strong and managing woman. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The notion of her managing! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They are _mighty_ onpleasant; but, as I manages business, I generally avoids 'em, sir. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You have only to look at Keck, who manages the 'Trumpet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The only way is to put him down at once,--not let him open his mouth; that's the way papa manages. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You can have no idea how dexterously he manages these slippery Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The way she manages this place; her punctuality, domestic knowledge, economy, and order; her cheerfulness, Copperfield! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I think it really sublime, the way she manages. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Shirley Keeldar manages better. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Barbie