manage

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  "She managed to drag her on shore."
• WordNet 3.6
  • v manage handle effectively "The burglar wielded an axe","The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well"
  • v manage be in charge of, act on, or dispose of "I can deal with this crew of workers","This blender can't handle nuts","She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"
  • v manage watch and direct "Who is overseeing this project?"
  • v manage be successful; achieve a goal "She succeeded in persuading us all","I managed to carry the box upstairs","She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it","The pianist negociated the difficult runs"
  • v manage carry on or function "We could do with a little more help around here"
  • v manage achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
  • v manage come to terms with "We got by on just a gallon of gas","They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
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THE TRIANGULAR DUEL OF THE OPERATIC MANAGERS

Letter from General Rodriguez to the Ford manager in Mexico City

• Interesting fact: In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills
• • n Manage The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.☞ This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been displaced by manege; in its more general meaning, by management. "Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.""Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon
    Wanting the manage of unruly jades.""The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl."
  • Manage To bring about; to contrive.
  • v. i Manage To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. "Leave them to manage for thee."
  • Manage to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans. "It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.""It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant."
  • Manage To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle. "Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed .""What wars I manage , and what wreaths I gain."
  • Manage To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  • Manage To treat with care; to husband.
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• Interesting fact: Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Although it has a circumference of 280,000 miles compared with Earth's 25,000 Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.
• • n manage The handling, control, or training of a horse; manège.
  • n manage A ring for the training of horses and the practice of horsemanship; a riding-school.
  • n manage In general, training; discipline; treatment.
  • n manage Management.
  • n manage Bearing; behavior.
  • manage To wield by hand; guide or direct by use of the hands; hence, to control or regulate by any physical exertion.
  • manage To train by handling or manipulation; drill to certain styles and habits of action; teach by exercise or training, as in the manège.
  • manage To control or direct by administrative ability; regulate or administer; have the guidance or direction of: as, to manage a theater.
  • manage To control, restrain, or lead by keeping in a desired state or condition; direct by influence or persuasion: as, to manage an angry or an insane person.
  • manage To arrange, fashion, contrive, effect, or carry out by skill or art; carry on or along; bring about: as, to manage the characters of a play, or the plot of a novel; to manage a delicate or perplexing piece of business.
  • manage To succeed in contriving; effect by effort, or by action of any kind (in the latter case often ironical): with an infinitive for object: as, to manage to hold one's own; in his eagerness he managed to lose everything.
  • manage Synonyms Manage, Conduct, Direct, handle, superintend, supervise, order, transact. Manage literally implies handling, and hence primarily belongs to smaller concerns, on which one may at all times keep his hand: as, to manage a house; a manage a theater. Its essential idea is that of constant attention to details: as, only a combination of great abilities with a genius for industry can manage the affairs of an empire. To conduct is to lead along, hence to attend with personal supervision; it implies the determination of the main features of administration and the securing of thoroughness in those who carry out the commands; it is used of both large things and small, but generally refers to a definite task, coming to an end or issue: as, to conduct a religious service, a funeral, a campaign. Direct allows the person directing to be at a distance or near; the word suggests more authority than manage or conduct.
  • manage See govern and guide, v. t.
  • manage To direct or conduct affairs; regulate or carry on any business.
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• Interesting fact: On average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
• • v.t Manage man′āj to guide by use of the hands: to have under command or control: to bring round to one's plans: to conduct with great carefulness: to wield: to handle: to contrive: to train by exercise, as a horse
  • v.i Manage to conduct affairs
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• Moliere

  

  “We always speak well when we manage to be understood.”
• Alexander Clark

  

  “Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.”
• Peter F. Drucker

  

  “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
• Peter F. Drucker

  

  “The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”
• Lee Iacocca

  

  “Management is nothing more than motivating other people.”
• C. T. Mckenzie

  

  “Man is the principal syllable in Management.”

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