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 Definitions for manage: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Manage \Man"age\, n. [F. man[`e]ge, It. maneggio, fr. maneggiare
to manage, fr. L. manushand. Perhaps somewhat influenced by
F. m['e]nage 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.]
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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions,
embrace more than they can hold. --Bacon.
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Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon
Wanting the manage of unruly jades. --Shak.
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The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. --Shak.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Manage \Man"age\, v. i.
To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to
administer.
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Leave them to manage for thee. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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.
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Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily
managed. --Sir I.
Newton.
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What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. --Prior.
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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.
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It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant
subjects. --Addison.
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It was not her humor to manage those over whom she
had gained an ascendant. --Bp. Hurd.
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3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in
graceful or artful action.
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4. To treat with care; to husband. --Dryden.
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5. To bring about; to contrive. --Shak.
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Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive;
concert; conduct; transact.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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manage
v 1: 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"
[syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off]
[ant: fail]
2: 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"
[syn: deal, care, handle]
3: 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" [syn: cope, get by, make out, make do,
contend, grapple, deal]
4: watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?" [syn: oversee,
supervise, superintend]
5: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
[syn: wangle, finagle]
6: carry on or manage; "We could do with a little more help
around here" [syn: do]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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239 Moby Thesaurus words for "manage":
accomplish, achieve, administer, administrate, animal husbandry,
animal rearing, attain, automobiling, be master,
be responsible for, be so, be such, bed, bed down, bee culture,
beekeeping, bicycling, biking, break, breeding, bridle,
bring about, bring off, brush, busing, call the signals, captain,
care for, carry on, carry out, carry through, cattle-ranching,
chair, chart a course, chicken-farming, clear, clear the hurdle,
come along, come on, come out, come through, command, compass,
complete, cond, conduct, conn, consummate, contend with, contrive,
control, cope, cope with, coxswain, curry, currycomb,
cut the mustard, cycling, dairy-farming, deal with, direct,
discharge, discipline, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job,
do the trick, do with, dominate, drench, dressage, drive, driving,
economize, effect, effectuate, eke out, employ, enact,
enforce economies, engineer, equitation, execute, exercise, exert,
fare, feed, fetch, fodder, fulfill, function, gentle, get along,
get along on, get by, get by on, get on, gnotobiotics, go along,
go on, go on with, govern, grazing, groom, guide, hack it, handle,
hang in, hang tough, harness, have the conn, head, head up, helm,
herding, hitch, horse training, horseback riding, horsemanship,
husband, keep, keep afloat, keep at it, keep within compass,
knock off, lead, lead on, litter, look after, make, make do,
make ends meet, make go, make it, make out, make the grade,
make the rules, make use of, makeshift, manage somehow,
manage with, maneuver, manipulate, mastermind, milk, mink-ranching,
motorcycling, motoring, muddle through, navigate, negotiate,
never say die, officer, operate, ordain, order, oversee, pedaling,
perform, perform on, persevere, persist, pig-keeping, pilot, play,
ply, polish off, practice, prescribe, preside over, produce,
pull the strings, put away, put over, put something aside,
put through, quarterback, realize, regulate, riding, riding school,
rub down, rule over, run, saddle, save, scrape, scrape along,
scrape and save, scrimp, see it through, see to, shape a course,
shape up, sheepherding, skimp, skipper, stack up, stagger,
stand over, steer, steward, stick it out, stick to it,
stock raising, stockbreeding, subsist, succeed, succeed in,
superintend, supervise, survive, swing, swing the deal,
take care of, take command, take the lead, tame, tend,
thremmatology, train, transact, treat, turn out, turn the trick,
undertake, use, utilize, watch over, water, wield, wield authority,
work, work out, worry along, yoke, zootechnics, zootechny
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