manage

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Etymology [edit]

From Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from mano, from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual.

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Verb [edit]

manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)

  1. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
  2. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
  3. (transitive) To handle wth skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
      The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
  4. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt
    He managed to climb the tower.
  5. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.

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to direct or be in charge
to handle or control a situation or job
to handle a tool with ease
to succeed at an attempt
to achieve without fuss, or without outside help
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Noun [edit]

manage (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:
      the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
  2. (horseriding) Manège.

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