Meaning

(transitive) To direct or be in charge of..

Definitions by Sense

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]
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.

Example Sentences

Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.

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.

The government managed the inflation very poorly.

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […].

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?

Word Forms

• manages
• managing
• managed

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