manipulation

See also: Manipulation

English

Etymology

From French manipulation, from Old French manipule, from Latin manipulus. Morphologically manipulate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˌnɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /məˌnɪp.jəˈlæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

manipulation (countable and uncountable, plural manipulations)

1. The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.

   The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.

   • 1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 212:

     The rear portion of the tender top is flat and open so as to facilitate the manipulation of the water crane.

2. The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.

   After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.

3. The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.

   The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.

   Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival.

   • 2026 January 5, Michael Schneider, “Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding”, in Variety‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 January 2026:

     A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors.”

Derived terms

• antimanipulation
• automanipulation
• biomanipulation
• crowd manipulation
• electromanipulation
• immunomanipulation
• manipulational
• micromanipulation
• nanomanipulation
• nonmanipulation
• object manipulation
• photomanipulation
• postmanipulation
• psychomanipulation
• telemanipulation
• womanipulation

Translations

practice of manipulating

• Albanian: manipulim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَلَاعُب m (talāʕub), تَعْدِيل m (taʕdīl), تَغْيِير m (taḡyīr)
• Armenian: մանիպուլյացիա (hy) (manipulyacʻia)
• Belarusian: маніпуля́цыя f (manipuljácyja)
• Bulgarian: манипула́ция (bg) f (manipulácija)
• Catalan: manipulació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 操縱 / 操纵 (zh) (cāozòng), 運用 / 运用 (zh) (yùnyòng)

• Czech: manipulace (cs) f
• Danish: manipulation c
• Dutch: manipulatie (nl) f, gebruik (nl) n
• Estonian: manipulatsioon
• Finnish: manipulaatio (fi)
• French: manipulation (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: manipulaasje c

• Galician: manipulación (gl) f
• Georgian: მანიპულაცია (maniṗulacia)
• German: Manipulation (de) f
• Greek: χειραγώγηση (el) f (cheiragógisi)
• Hungarian: manipuláció (hu)
• Indonesian: manipulasi (id)
• Italian: manipolazione (it) f
• Latvian: manipulācija f
• Lithuanian: manipuliacija f
• Macedonian: манипулација f (manipulacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: manipulasjon m

• Persian: دستکاری (fa) (dastkâri)
• Polish: manipulacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: manipulação (pt) f
• Romanian: manipulare (ro) f
• Russian: манипуля́ция (ru) f (manipuljácija), манипули́рование (ru) n (manipulírovanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: манипула́ција f

  Latin: manipulácija (sh) f

• Slovak: manipulácia f
• Slovene: manipulacija f
• Spanish: manipulación (es) f
• Swedish: manipulation (sv) c
• Turkish: manipülasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: маніпуля́ція f (manipuljácija), маніпулюва́ння n (manipuljuvánnja)
• Vietnamese: sự thao tác (vi)

skillful use of the hands

• Bulgarian: бора́вене n (borávene)
• Catalan: manipulació (ca) f
• Dutch: manipulatie (nl) f
• Galician: manipulación (gl) f
• Persian: دست‌ورزی (dast-varzi)
• Polish: manipulacja (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: манипула́ција f

  Latin: manipulácija (sh) f

• Ukrainian: маніпуля́ція f (manipuljácija)

devious management

• Armenian: ձեռնածություն (hy) (jeṙnacutʻyun), մեքենայություն (hy) (mekʻenayutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: подве́ждане n (podvéždane)
• Dutch: manipulatie (nl) f, misbruik (nl) n
• Finnish: manipulaatio (fi)
• French: manipulation (fr) f
• Galician: manipulación (gl) f
• German: Manipulierung f, Manipulieren n, Manipulation (de) f
• Hungarian: manipuláció (hu)
• Polish: manipulacja (pl) f
• Spanish: manipulación (es) f
• Ukrainian: маніпуля́ція f (manipuljácija)

See also

• pedipulation

French

Etymology

From manipuler +‎ -tion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ni.py.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

manipulation f (plural manipulations)

1. manipulation

Further reading

• “manipulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Noun

manipulation c

1. manipulation

Declension

Declension of manipulation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	manipulation	manipulations
	definite	manipulationen	manipulationens
plural	indefinite	manipulationer	manipulationers
	definite	manipulationerna	manipulationernas

Related terms

• manipulera (“manipulate”)

References

• “manipulation”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “manipulation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “manipulation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)