manage
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
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)).
Inflected forms:
form: manages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: managing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: managed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: managed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To direct or be in charge of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To handle or control (a situation, job).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The government managed the inflation very poorly.
gloss: To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy,
 That euer warlike weapons menaged […].
gloss: To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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?
gloss: To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
ironic
examples: She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint.
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.
gloss: To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
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.
gloss: To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "That's nice, dear!", she managed.
gloss: To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To treat with care; to husband.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: [She] […]manages her last half-crown with care,
And trudges to the Mall, on foot
gloss: To bring about; to contrive.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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!
gloss: The act of managing or controlling something.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: the winged God himſelfe
 Came riding on a Lion rauenous,
 Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […].
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
gloss: Manège.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
Related words: man
Derived words: assistant-manage
comanage
macromanage
manageability
manageable
manage arms
managed care
managed code
managed house
manage down
managee
manageless
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manage out
manager
managerial
manage up
manage with
managing director
micromanage
mismanage
outmanage
overmanage
project manage
stage-manage
undermanage
unmanage
unmanageable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: съумявам
roman: sǎumjavam
lang: Catalan
word: sortir-se'n
lang: Catalan
word: aconseguir
lang: Czech
word: zvládnout
lang: Czech
word: uspět
lang: Dutch
word: erin slagen
lang: Dutch
word: lukken
lang: Estonian
word: õnnestuma
lang: Finnish
word: onnistua
lang: French
word: parvenir
lang: French
word: réussir
lang: French
word: arriver
lang: German
word: hinbekommen
lang: German
word: schaffen
lang: Greek
word: κατορθώνω
roman: katorthóno
lang: Hungarian
word: sikerül
lang: Indonesian
word: berhasil
lang: Italian
word: riuscire
lang: Korean
word: 는 데 성공하다
roman: -neun de seonggonghada
lang: Norwegian
word: klare
lang: Polish
word: dać radę
lang: Polish
word: dokonać
lang: Polish
word: podołać
lang: Polish
word: zdołać
lang: Portuguese
word: conseguir
lang: Romanian
word: reuși
lang: Romanian
word: izbuti
lang: Romanian
word: descurca
lang: Russian
word: справля́ться
roman: spravljátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: удава́ться
roman: udavátʹsja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: успети
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: постићи
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сналазити се
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: uspeti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: postići
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: snalaziti se
lang: Spanish
word: conseguir
lang: Spanish
word: lograr
lang: Swahili
word: mudu
lang: Swedish
word: lyckas
lang: Ukrainian
word: вдаватися
roman: vdavatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: вда́тися
roman: vdátysja