Definition of "manage"

manage

/ˈmænɪdʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed
1. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
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  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.
  1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750
2. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
3. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
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  It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
  1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […] .
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
4. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
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  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.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
  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?
  2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864
5. (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
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  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.
  2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
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.
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  [She] […] manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot
  1673, John Dryden, “Prologue”, in Marriage à la Mode
9. (obsolete, transitive) To bring about; to contrive.
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  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!
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), 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, [Act II, scene iii]
noun
uncountable
1. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
  Quotations
  the winged God himſelfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […] .
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
  the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), 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, [Act III, scene i]
2. (horseriding) Manège.
  Quotations
  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

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