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MANAGE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Handle effectively

Example:

The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well

Synonyms:

handle; manage; wield

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "manage" is one way to...):

manipulate (hold something in one's hands and move it)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manage"):

ply (wield vigorously)

pump (operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal)

sweep; swing; swing out (make a big sweeping gesture or movement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of

Example:

She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old

Synonyms:

care; deal; handle; manage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "manage" is one way to...):

command; control (exercise authoritative control or power over)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manage"):

touch (deal with; usually used with a form of negation)

carry on; conduct; deal (direct the course of; manage or control)

direct (be in charge of)

misconduct; mishandle; mismanage (manage badly or incompetently)

process (deal with in a routine way)

juggle (deal with simultaneously)

coordinate (bring into common action, movement, or condition)

mind; take care (be in charge of or deal with)

dispose of (deal with or settle)

come to grips; get to grips (deal with (a problem or a subject))

work (cause to operate or function)

organise; organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

administer; administrate (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

manageable (capable of being managed or controlled)

management (the act of managing something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Watch and direct

Example:

Who is overseeing this project?

Synonyms:

manage; oversee; superintend; supervise

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "manage" is one way to...):

administer; administrate (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manage"):

build (order, supervise, or finance the construction of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

manageable (capable of being managed or controlled)

management (the act of managing something)

manager ((sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team)

manager (someone who controls resources and expenditures)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be successful; achieve a goal

Example:

The pianist negociated the difficult runs

Synonyms:

bring off; carry off; manage; negociate; pull off

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "manage" is one way to...):

bring home the bacon; come through; deliver the goods; succeed; win (attain success or reach a desired goal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Antonym:

fail (be unable)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Carry on or function

Example:

We could do with a little more help around here

Synonyms:

do; manage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

Synonyms:

finagle; manage; wangle

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "manage" is one way to...):

accomplish; achieve; attain; reach (to gain with effort)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody something

Sense 7

Meaning:

Succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available

Example:

They made do on half a loaf of bread every day

Synonyms:

contend; cope; deal; get by; grapple; make do; make out; manage

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "manage" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "manage"):

extemporize; improvise (manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand)

fend (try to manage without help)

cut; hack (be able to manage or manage successfully)

rub along; scrape along; scrape by; scratch along; squeak by; squeeze by (manage one's existence barely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

He does know how to manage them, and will be a great help, for Demi is getting too much for me.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The company may design, manage, and monitor the trial, and analyze the results.

(Contract Research Organization, NCI Dictionary)

The utilization or development of computer programs to solve, analyze, understand or manage any simple or complex task.

(Computational Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of successfully managing difficult or challenging situations.

(Coping, NCI Thesaurus)

I am sure I managed very well before we were married.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I could manage it better if I were alone.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Saturn was teaching you the value of money and asked you to manage with less.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He was sure no Houyhnhnm alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust Yahoos to manage it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the largest study of its kind to date, Cambridge researchers have looked at why some people manage to stay thin while others gain weight easily.

(Slim people have a genetic advantage when it comes to maintaining their weight, University of Cambridge)

Exercise is known to improve how the body manages blood sugar levels and thereby reduce the risk of type-2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome in non-pregnant women.

(Exercise in pregnancy improves health of obese mothers by restoring their tissues, University of Cambridge)