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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"
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



... it as a god. It must be a very ill-advised god who knows no better way of diverting himself than by turning into such a world as ours, such a mean, shabby world, there to take the form of innumerable millions who live indeed, but are fretted and tormented, and who manage to exist a while together, only by preying on one another; to bear misery, need and death, without measure and without object, in the form, for instance, of millions of negro slaves, or of the three million weavers in Europe who, in hunger and care, ...
— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, A Dialogue, Etc. • Arthur Schopenhauer
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... "I think we can manage it if we're all true friends; and may I ask your name, my dear? for you're the prettiest Mounseer that ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester
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... the first week of August to come to the meeting which was to be held at Treurfontein on the 15th. The instructions given to these men were that they were to come with rifle, horse, saddle and bridle, and as much ammunitions and provisions as they could manage to bring. ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
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... given to her had been Clorinda, and from her babyhood she had been as tempestuous as her sisters were mild. None could manage her. Her baby training left wholly to neglected and loose-living servants, she had spent her first years in kitchens, garrets, and stables. The stables and the stable-boys, the kennels and their keepers, ...
— His Grace of Osmonde • Frances Hodgson Burnett
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... manage for getting money while we are travelling is by a circular letter from Baring & Brothers. On this we are introduced to houses in the great cities through which our route lies, and the letter states ...
— Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, - Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland • Various
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