manage up (English, verb)
expansion: manage up (third-person singular simple present manages up, present participle managing up, simple past and past participle managed up)
Senses:
glosses: To calculate one's interactions with someone above oneself in a hierarchy (often one's own manager) so as to try to guide them into choosing a certain option (narrow scope) or to guide them into doing a better job at their leadership of their subordinates (broader scope).
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: manages up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: managing up
tags: participle
present
form: managed up
tags: participle
past
form: managed up
tags: past