manage
IPA: mˈænʌdʒ
noun
- (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
- (horseriding) Manège.
verb
- (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
- (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
- (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- (transitive) To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
- (transitive) To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- (obsolete, transitive) To treat with care; to husband.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bring about; to contrive.
Advertisement
Examples of "manage" in Sentences
- My state tends to manage from a carrying capacity perspective.
- The most we manage is a beer and pretzels card game at Chinese carry out (fairly regularly).
- And the best they can ever manage is to lob a few dozen rockets at a Turkish military base before getting slaughtered.
- She bribes him into getting transportation papers for a refugee, but the best he can manage is papers that require her to be escorted by him.
- After buying expensive cameras and running around with Austin, the best Grenier can manage is a picture of Brooke Shields leaving a restaurant.
- Someone posed a question to me about the most likely way that a plural marriage law would handle the exponential increase in relationships to manage from a legal perspective.
- Facebook also is removing regional networks because some of them -- such as China -- consist of millions of users, which makes them nearly impossible to manage from a privacy standpoint.
- Abdicating his war-time leadership role to Congress and the generals is EXACTLY what President Bush did throughout his managing of the Iraq war, falling back again and again on some supposed unwillingness to micro-manage from the Oval office.
Advertisement
Advertisement