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Manage   /mˈænədʒ/  /mˈænɪdʒ/   Listen
verb
Manage  v. t.  (past & past part. managed; pres. part. managing)  
1.
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."
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. "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."
3.
To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
4.
To treat with care; to husband.
5.
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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"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

... "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

... 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

... 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

... 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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