Word: manage Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Latin manus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izāre Vulgar Latin *manizāre Old Italian maneggiareder.? Old French manegebor. Middle English *manage English manage From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from Vulgar Latin *manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izāre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of manège. Compare typologically English handle; Russian руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ) (< рука́ (ruká)). Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmɛən.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈmæn.əd͡ʒ/, /ˈmɛən.əd͡ʒ/, /mæn.eːd͡ʒ/ 1. To direct or be in charge of. Labels: transitive Example: Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success. Example: 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. 2. To handle or control (a situation, job). Labels: transitive Example: The government managed the inflation very poorly. 3. To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). Labels: transitive Example: It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. Example: The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […]. 4. To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty. Labels: intransitive Example: He managed to climb the tower. Example: 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. 5. To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty. Labels: intransitive, ironic Example: She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint. Example: Despite that, Swindon should have been level in stoppage time, but Mathieu Baudry somehow managed to put a free header over the crossbar from point-blank range. 6. To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help. Labels: ambitransitive Example: It's a tough job, but I'll manage. Example: 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. 7. To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc. Labels: transitive Example: "That's nice, dear!", she managed. 8. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action. Labels: transitive 9. To treat with care; to husband. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [She] […]manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot 10. To bring about; to contrive. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: 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!