Managery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Managery is a noun meaning Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
Meaning
Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
More Meanings
- Husbandry; economy; frugality.
- (obsolete) Something requiring management; a project.
Example Sentences
Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.
[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]
1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]
Word Forms
- manageries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include manner, mannerization, cost, modus, arrangement, kind.
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