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manage
- /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/ UK
- /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/
- /ˈmɛən.ɪd͡ʒ/
- /ˈmæn.əd͡ʒ/
- /ˈmɛən.əd͡ʒ/
- /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/ Australia
- /ˈmɛn.əd͡ʒ/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ænɪdʒ
Where it comes from
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 *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
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)).
verb manages · managing · managed
- To direct or be in charge of. Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.
- To handle or control (a situation, job). The government managed the inflation very poorly.
- To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty. He managed to climb the tower.
- To end up doing something that could or should have been avoided. She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint.
- To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help. It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
- To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc. "That's nice, dear!", she managed.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- To treat with care; to husband. [She] […]manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot
- To bring about; to contrive. 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!
noun
- The act of managing or controlling something. the winged God himſelfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […].
- Manège. You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
