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Meaning manage meaning

What does manage mean?
Definitions in simple English

manage Verb

— If you manage something, you organise and control it. Other European countries manage their health services better than we do. The other two teams were managed by their local area directors. — If you manage something, you are able to do it or deal with it successfully. Even with the pain, somehow she managed a smile. I don't know how they manage with so little money.

manage

— verb (= negociate) be successful; achieve a goal She succeeded in persuading us all I managed to carry the box upstairs She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it The pianist negociated the difficult runs — verb (= deal, handle) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of I can deal with this crew of workers This blender can't handle nuts She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old — verb (= oversee) watch and direct Who is overseeing this project? — verb (= get by, make do) come to terms with We got by on just a gallon of gas They made do on half a loaf of bread every day — verb (= wangle) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods — verb (= do) carry on or function We could do with a little more help around here — verb (= wield, handle) handle effectively The burglar wielded an axe The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well

Synonyms manage synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as manage?

manage English » English

control administer direct handle run supervise do conduct govern lead operate deal with cope deal carry on succeed rule get along look after arrange take care of superintend master guide boss administrate steer oversee get by dispose of regulate make do perform cope with contrive be in charge work treat preside organize execute dominate command accomplish settle management make head grapple behave

Topics manage topics

What do people use manage to talk about?
Work and occupation Work Difficult, impossible

Succeed
Work and occupation Business organization

Management
Grammar General words

Do
States Quantity Enough

Need

Conjugation manage conjugation

How do you conjugate manage?

manage · verb

Examples manage examples

How do I use manage in a sentence?

Simple sentences

How do people manage to sleep on the plane?
Tom keeps refusing any help, claiming that he will manage it all by himself.
The problem is how we should manage the money.
Don't try to do it by yourself, you won't manage it.
I believe that with Tom's support, we will manage it.
Tom cannot manage it anymore.
Can you manage to complete the manuscript by Friday?
Will you manage to repair my car?
No human power can manage that.
How did the thief manage to avoid being caught?
I don't know how to manage that large estate.
Can you manage to carry the suitcase by yourself?
With a hundred dollars, I could manage.
I manage to get along on a small salary.
You really have to manage him carefully.
What he can't manage at will is language.
They manage to get along without much money.
I hope I can manage to make both ends meet.
How will you manage without a job?
I manage to support my family.
Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.
It's heavy, but I can manage it.
I can't afford to buy a new bike, so I'll have to manage with this old one.
I'll manage it.
Tom can't manage on his own.
Tom didn't manage to answer all the questions.

Movie subtitles

I will manage to sell them back.
I don't think I can manage much conversation.
It means me trying to stay one step ahead, trying to work out how she's going to balance on a potty, how she's ever going to pull her knickers up and down or how she's going to manage the stairs or hold a pen.
She'll manage.
I'll manage. Yes, you will.
Did you manage to secure your funding?
I mean, why do these middle-aged men get to tell us how to manage our breast health?
Do we tell them how to manage their testicle wellness?
But he can manage a bull train too.
Now, you take me on as a neighbor. and all that, and i'll manage withou t chimneys in the centry.
You're not fit to manage these things.
You'll manage overnight!
I'll manage everything.
The organ needs finishing and Alois can't manage alone.
Oort had to manage with a student of physics from Leiden, who started to try to put together a receiver.
How would you like a chinaman to tell you how to manage your baby?
As soon as we land, I'll manage it so you can see Johnny.
I'll manage somehow. I'll get it.
If you manage, those five G's are as good as in the bag. Maybe more.
If you manage, I'd like hot whiskey.
We'll manage somehow.
You're far too pretty and thoughtless to manage a house properly.
We should manage the business very well.
Yes, how you manage to keep your dear wife is a mystery to me.
If you can manage the bread, I'll whip you up some scrambled eggs. that'll be a poem.
But natives everywhere manage to understand each other somehow.
The coachman wishes me to remind Monsieur le Baron there are four horses to manage, and they're restless.
Can't you manage to hold it a little higher?
It concerns the issue of safety, we didn't manage to tell you on time.
Sure, I'll manage you. Anything you say.
What a beautiful, easy husband you'll be to manage.
We are just one big family.. which you manage like a father.
O'Connor, leave him alone. I'll manage him.
I'll manage somehow.
I can manage fine on my own.
I'd manage.
We might manage to entertain her before she thrashed me.

News and current affairs

New thinking is required to manage these massive and systemic changes, as well as the integration of giants like China and India into the modern world.
If monetary policy is not effective, the only lever the American government has to manage its economy is fiscal policy: changes in the government's tax and spending plans to change the government's direct contribution to aggregate demand.
There have been two eras since World War II when policymakers - American policymakers, at least - believed that they had solved the riddle of the business cycle and had learned how to manage a modern industrial or post-industrial economy.
Keynes was an optimist in believing that governments could learn to manage the business cycle.
It is inconceivable that Greece could manage that within the eurozone without widespread social unrest, if not conditions approaching those of civil war.
Humanity needs to learn new ways to produce and use low-carbon energy, grow food sustainably, build livable cities, and manage the global commons of oceans, biodiversity, and the atmosphere.
For the eurozone's southern periphery, however, today's euro rate is very difficult to manage.
Similarly, Europeans are rich enough to manage their own security.
On the contrary, they are now the government's partners in a joint venture to manage this dishonest scheme.
And the US-China relationship has deteriorated, with America seeking to manage China's rise strategically - for example, through regional trade agreements and an enhanced military presence in Asia.
Bush let the managers manage the team and the financial guys run the business.
Unfortunately, cap-and-trade systems are difficult to manage and don't give clear signals about the future price of permits.
Foreign policy, too, may prove difficult to manage.
Peasants simply cannot manage in the cold free market.
Today's capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds' investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.
But the larger truth is that the world has become a more difficult place to manage, much less to lead.
But, even with favorable world market conditions, we did not manage to solve the problem of poverty, in which millions of Russians still live.
In the 1970's, Britain was where the preeminent postwar model of how to manage the economy collapsed.
Iran and its international interlocutors should learn from the past and manage expectations accordingly.
The fun thing about Litan's book is that he details many clever little ideas about how to run businesses or to manage the economy better.
There was almost pride in the lack of confidence Argentina's people had in their institutions and their ability to manage without the shackles of convertibility.
At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable; after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers.
China's ascent, however, is dividing Asia, and its future trajectory will depend on how its neighbors and other players, like the US, manage its rapidly accumulating power.

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