manage

Meanings

Verb

• To direct or be in charge of.
• To handle or control (a situation, job).
• To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
• To succeed at an attempt.
• To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
• To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
• To treat with care; to husband.
• To bring about; to contrive.

Noun

• The act of managing or controlling something.
• Manège.

Related

Similar words

• bewield

Origin

• 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 mano, from Latin manus ("the hand"); see manual.