manage

English Online Dictionary. What means manage‎? What does manage mean?

English

Etymology

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”), ultimately from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual. Doublet of manège.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmænɪdʒ/
• (US)
  • (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmænədʒ/
  • (weak vowel distinction) IPA^(key): /ˈmænɪdʒ/
• Hyphenation: man‧age
• Rhymes: -ænɪdʒ

Verb

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 with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
4. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty. [with infinitive]
   1. (ironic) To end up doing something that could or should have been avoided.
5. (ambitransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
6. (transitive) To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.

7. (transitive) To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
8. (obsolete, transitive) To treat with care; to husband.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To bring about; to contrive.

Synonyms

• (To handle with skill, wield): bewield
• (to accomplish (something difficult/unexpected)): contrive

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Translations

Noun

manage (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
2. (equestrianism) Manège.

See also

• man
• Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “manage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “manage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Meagan, agname

Middle English

Noun

manage

1. Alternative form of menage