Etimology
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”), ultimately from Latin manus (“the hand”); see manual.
verb
manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)
(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.
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.
The government managed the inflation very poorly.
It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […] .
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 . Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
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.
"That's nice, dear!", she managed.
[She] […] manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot
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!
Related words
synonyms
(To handle with skill, wield): bewield
related terms
manege
manual
manus
noun
manage (uncountable)
(now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
(horseriding) Manège.
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
You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..