manage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, 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.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmænɪdʒ/
- (US)
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænədʒ/
- (no weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænɪdʒ/
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænədʒ/
- Rhymes: -ænɪdʒ
- Hyphenation: man‧age
Verb[edit]
manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)
- (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
- 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:
- Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
- (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
- (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 1051505315:
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto ii:
- The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged […] .
- (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- He managed to climb the tower.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
- 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
- Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
- (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
- 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
- "That's nice, dear!", she managed.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
- 1673, John Dryden, “Prologue”, in Marriage à la Mode:
- [She] […] manages her last half-crown with care,
And trudges to the Mall, on foot
- (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 2, scene 3]:
- in a town of war,
Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,
To manage private and domestic quarrel,
In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of manage
infinitive | manage | ||||||||||
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present participle | managing | ||||||||||
past participle | managed | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I manage | we manage | I am managing | we are managing | I have managed | we have managed | I have been managing | we have been managing | |||
you manage | you manage | you are managing | you are managing | you have managed | you have managed | you have been managing | you have been managing | ||||
he manages | they manage | he is managing | they are managing | he has managed | they have managed | he has been managing | they have been managing | ||||
past | I managed | we managed | I was managing | we were managing | I had managed | we had managed | I had been managing | we had been managing | |||
you managed | you managed | you were managing | you were managing | you had managed | you had managed | you had been managing | you had been managing | ||||
he managed | they managed | he was managing | they were managing | he had managed | they had managed | he had been managing | they had been managing | ||||
future | I will manage | we will manage | I will be managing | we will be managing | I will have managed | we will have managed | I will have been managing | we will have been managing | |||
you will manage | you will manage | you will be managing | you will be managing | you will have managed | you will have managed | you will have been managing | you will have been managing | ||||
he will manage | they will manage | he will be managing | they will be managing | he will have managed | they will have managed | he will have been managing | they will have been managing | ||||
conditional | I would manage | we would manage | I would be managing | we would be managing | I would have managed | we would have managed | I would have been managing | we would have been managing | |||
you would manage | you would manage | you would be managing | you would be managing | you would have managed | you would have managed | you would have been managing | you would have been managing | ||||
he would manage | they would manage | he would be managing | they would be managing | he would have managed | they would have managed | he would have been managing | they would have been managing | ||||
imperative | manage |
Synonyms[edit]
- (To handle with skill, wield): bewield
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from manage (verb)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to direct or be in charge
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to handle or control a situation or job
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to handle a tool with ease
to succeed at an attempt
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to achieve without fuss, or without outside help
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Noun[edit]
manage (uncountable)
- (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto xii:
- the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […] .
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Youth and Age
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
- (horseriding) Manège.
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
- You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
- 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman
See also[edit]
- man
Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading[edit]
- “manage” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “manage” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
manage
- Alternative form of menage
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