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manage

[man-ij]

verb (used with object)

to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?

to take charge or care of: to manage my investments.

to dominate or influence (a person) by tact, flattery, or artifice: He manages the child with exemplary skill.

to handle, direct, govern, or control in action or use: She managed the boat efficiently.

to wield (a weapon, tool, etc.).

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to handle or train (a horse) in the exercises of the manège.

Archaic. to use sparingly or with judgment, as health or money; husband.

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verb (used without object)

to conduct business, commercial affairs, etc.; be in charge: Who will manage while the boss is away?

to continue to function, progress, or succeed, usually despite hardship or difficulty; get along: How will he manage with his wife gone? It was a rough time, but we managed.

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Origin:
1555–65; earlier manege < Italian maneggiare to handle, train (horses), derivative of mano < Latin manus hand

Related forms

o·ver·man·age, verb (used with object), -aged, -ag·ing.

qua·si-man·aged, adjective

self-man·ag·ing, adjective

un·der·man·age, verb (used with object), -aged, -ag·ing.

un·der·man·aged, adjective

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un·man·aged, adjective

well-man·aged, adjective

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Synonyms
1. arrange, contrive. 4. guide, conduct, regulate, engineer. See rule. 5. handle, manipulate.

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Citigroup is helping the kids of its wealthiest clients to manage their allowances.

Even when they had decent numbers, executives struggled to manage their mutinous staff.

To save energy in an apartment or a house, manage the heating and cooling.

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Citigroup is helping the kids of its wealthiest clients to manage their allowances.

Even when they had decent numbers, executives struggled to manage their mutinous staff.

To save energy in an apartment or a house, manage the heating and cooling.

Diabetes drugs help to manage the body's constantly fluctuating levels of blood glucose.

If you find something interesting and manage to capture it in a photo, consider sending it in.

Always plan an overflow route, and manage that overflow as a resource.

Google's long-awaited attempt to manage your medical records is live.

So knowing how to manage expectations over such vast distances and collaborate across time zones is probably an advantage.

To pull in additional males there would have to be more females in a group than the alpha male could manage.

Policymakers may not intend to keep us trim when they're pondering how to manage fisheries and other wild food resources.

You'll need to manage health services worldwide to control the spread of the virus and prevent a pandemic.

After that the plants should manage with little irrigation.

If you manage your cables properly, though, this is a nice hi-tech alternative to walkie-talkies.

Regulators will also pay closer attention to how banks manage liquidity internally.

Bippin and the splinter gang manage to steal rice away from a napping rickshaw driver.

My late father's brain tumour was difficult to manage.

Some sugar-makers even manage to make a little money at it.

Sometimes they manage to let other creatures take the rap.

CloudStor is so web-centric, in fact, that you don't actually need to use software to manage it at all.

Financial risk got ahead of the world's ability to manage it.

Because solar homes manage heat during both hotter and cooler times, they use controls.

Robots, even after decades of research to make them completely autonomous, cannot manage without people in the loop.

Or you can wait until it's available to rent, or stream, or watch in whatever way you manage your home movie entertainment.

That's a tall order and you manage to do it all equally well.

So even if you can only manage cloth diapering part-time, it makes a difference.

Until and unless they do manage to accept that, the mess is unlikely to be resolved.

Composting these manures helps farmers manage manure volume, and.

When the body does not properly manage insulin levels, diabetes and other metabolic disorders are familiar outcomes.

The only things my mother ever canned were troublesome file clerks at the law office she used to manage.

And it's the kind of thing you have to pay attention to if you're going to manage livestock.

They manage it by putting a pair of magnets into the acrylic shafts.

The heads of the current crisis can not manage public affairs and to rise above the representatives of the citizenry.

Birds may not be as light as a feather, but they still manage to get off the ground.

Best way to manage would be to provide those afflicted with it, would be to provide them help with understanding.

With a detailed line drawing of the buttes, it makes a visit much easier to manage.

Sure, people do it and manage alright, but it's way more fun if you hold off and do a lot of other things first.

The availability of advice, he predicts, will determine which firms individuals select to manage their retirement money.

They say that the facilities chosen to manage the waste have poor track records.

Technically solutions exists on how to properly manage and deal with the nuclear waste.

Let's stop using the mythical global warming scare tactic to manage everything.

It can combine that information to help manage your workload.

If you don't manage the wildlife then it destroys its own habitat and humans.

Tibetans still manage to hold on to cherished traditions.

The remaining mystery is how the snails manage to survive being eaten.

Birds that remain in the polar north through winter manage to find food despite three months of total darkness.

Scientists hope to learn why-and how to better manage the forest for both wildlife and timber production.

It's not clear how the worms manage to live in a region where nothing but bacteria can live.

Logging in keeps your personal information safe and enables you to manage your account online.

The high-tech tools the companies boast of in their marketing materials can be effective for helping students manage their debt.

One challenge is how to manage operations in light of the explosion in computer power.

These findings have important implications for how clinicians manage the treatment of pain.

Once you're logged in, you can manage your subscription, suspend.

By the turn of the century it did not seem extraordinary that managers should manage by walking about.

The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex.

New research indicates that rats can manage this as well, making them the third.

If you can actually manage to get a product from them, and if it actually lives up to.

The psychological devices people use to manage what they express can affect social interactions in unintended ways.

Investigate how tigers are threatened in the wild and how zoos manage the tigers in their care.

These little cells, though, don't always manage to clear the site and often end up as part of the blockade themselves.

So the way they manage is to eat a whole lot of it”.

The trick lies in creating a new architecture that can pull all the chips together and manage their power requirements.

But if the amount of oil at state oil companies' disposal is not much of a worry, the way they manage it certainly is.

Our bipedal gait is a wonder of balance but it remains unclear exactly how our brains manage to maintain.

In the dashboard, you can manage how apps access your personal information, or uninstall them.

The ability to plug other computers into the mainframe and manage hardware and software applications, customers say, is appealing.

And the sums they manage are growing at a giddy pace-too giddy, say some.

After about an hour, the men finally manage to weld a pipe supplying water onto the stub of the former air-vent valve.

And all those smart phones means the infrastructure required to manage them is going to.

Researchers hope that this data will help them manage these species in the future.

Studying how ants manage this could provide the basis for a system of driverless cars running on ant traffic algorithms.

Its leaders will find foreign relations easier to manage if they draw less on historic.

No, the kidneys help regulate blood pressure through hormonal means which manage salt and water balance in the blood.

Despite pitfalls, the characters always manage to persevere.

Should you manage to snap one anyway, there are replacement blades in the box.

Several firms using derivatives in an attempt to manage such risks have suffered huge losses of late, on paper at any rate.

They manage this through a process called supercooling, in which a liquid can reach sub-zero temperatures but still remain fluid.

Not only is it able to climb a vertical wall, it can even manage one with an overhang.

The new technique does not manage congestion based on the protocol or application a consumer uses.

America has set up eight regional councils to recommend how to manage fisheries.

The toolbar also makes it easy to locate and manage maps and data in your project.

Furthermore, insects routinely sink below water's surface due to rain or turbulence, but always manage to resurface.

It is much cheaper to try to break off longevity risk and manage it separately.

It is the rare actress who can manage to be so seductive or sultry as this scene.

Digitizing medical data has been touted as one way to help the already burdened system manage the surge in patients.

Really sad that such ilk manage to muck about with scientific inquiry.

The first issue is how to manage the robots themselves.

Coe says the situation illustrates the urgent need to better manage water resources, which are limited.

Dutch power firms say wind remains key to meeting green energy targets but is still too expensive for them to manage alone.

Last summer, the cooperative hired a specialist to manage the cooperative's breeding program.

They manage to kill people each year, but not too many.

The department cannot even hold on to the recruits it does manage to find.

There, they learn how to care for and manage their worm charges.

The goal is to enable consumers to better manage their electricity usage and thereby save.

Sober discussion about how to manage the instability of markets is giving way to a simpler fable.

With so much unknown about the biology of this squid, it is impossible to intelligently manage such fisheries".

Exactly how they manage this sizing up has puzzled.

Then the animals took counsel together how they should manage to drive away the robbers, and at last they thought of a plan.

But how they manage to fall so slowly has been a bit of a mystery-until now.

Learn the difference between food allergies and intolerances and how to diagnose and manage common food allergies.

The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck.

The hundreds of thousands of men imprisoned simply exceeded either side's ability or will to manage.

Brennan's research shows how the wasps manage their food supply between the queen and her young.

But it also includes reacting to a disaster situation and helping to plan and manage in the aftermath of such an event".

Sustainable seafood is a way to replenish our oceans and manage their resources into the future.

Mining companies say they are working to manage the environment effects of their work.

But even as the number of parks swelled no central organization existed to manage them.

Male lions that manage to avoid early death can live to about the age of twelve.

Outside the conservation area, state-level and other agencies will manage an additional six million acres for grizzly bears.

Italy is in a better position to manage its debt than several other big countries.

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World English Dictionary

manage (ˈmænɪdʒ)

—vb
1.	(also intr) to be in charge (of); administer: to manage one's affairs; to manage a shop
2.	to succeed in being able (to do something) despite obstacles; contrive: did you manage to go to sleep?
3.	to have room, time, etc, for: can you manage dinner tomorrow?
4.	to exercise control or domination over, often in a tactful or guileful manner
5.	(intr) to contrive to carry on despite difficulties, esp financial ones: he managed quite well on very little money
6.	to wield or handle (a weapon)
7.	rare to be frugal in the use of

—n
8.	an archaic word for manège

[C16: from Italian maneggiare to control, train (esp horses), ultimately from Latin manus hand]

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Word Origin & History

manage

1560s, probably from It. maneggiare "to handle," esp. "to control a horse," from L. manus "hand" (see manual). Influenced by Fr. manège "horsemanship" (earliest English sense was of handling horses), which also was from the Italian. Extended to other objects or business

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from 1570s. Slang sense of "get by" first recorded 1650s. Related: Managed; managing.

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