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Etymology
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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.
Pronunciation
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Verb
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manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)
Conjugation
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Synonyms
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-
(
To handle with skill, wield
)
:
bewield
Derived terms
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Related terms
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Terms etymologically related to manage (verb)
- manege
- manual
- manus
Translations
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to handle a tool with ease
- Bulgarian: владея(bg)
(
vladeja
)
, боравя(bg)
(
boravja
)
- Czech: ovládat(cs)
impf
, zvládat
impf
- Finnish: hallita(fi)
- French: manier(fr)
- Galician: axeitar
- Hungarian: bánik(hu)
- Italian: managgiare
- Portuguese: manejar(pt)
- Swedish: handla(sv)
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
- Italian: (please verify) maneggiare(it)
- Korean: (please verify) 만지다(ko)
(
manjida
)
(please verify) 마니다(ko)(
manida
)
(
obsolete
)
- Norman: (please verify) mênagi
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Jersey
)
- Spanish: (please verify) manejar(es)
- Urdu: (please verify) ادار
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udār
)
Noun
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manage (uncountable)
See also
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Further reading
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- “manage” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “manage” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
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Middle English
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Noun
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manage
- menage
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