manage
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Latin manus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izāre Vulgar Latin *manizāre Old Italian maneggiareder.? Old French manegebor. Middle English *manage English manage 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 Vulgar Latin *manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izāre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of manège. Compare typologically English handle; Russian руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ) (< рука́ (ruká)).
- derived from maneggiare
- derived from manege
- inherited from *manage✻
- inherited from manage
Definitions
To direct or be in charge of.
- Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.
To handle or control (a situation, job).
- The government managed the inflation very poorly.
To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […].
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To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- He managed to climb the tower.
- 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.
- 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?
To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
To manage to say
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 train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
To treat with care
To treat with care; to husband.
- [She] […]manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot
To bring about
To bring about; to contrive.
- 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!
The act of managing or controlling something.
- the winged God himſelfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […].
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
Manège.
- You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
The neighborhood
- neighborman
Derived
assistant-manage, comanage, macromanage, manageability, manageable, manage arms, managed care, managed code, managed house, manage down, managee, manageless, management, manage out, manager, managerial, manage up, manage with, managing director, micromanage, mismanage, outmanage, overmanage, project manage, stage-manage, undermanage, unmanage, unmanageable
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at manage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at manage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at manage
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA