Manage(n.) The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
Manage(n.) To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
Manage(n.) Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.
Manage(n.) To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
Manage(n.) To treat with care; to husband.
Manage(n.) To bring about; to contrive.
Manage(v. i.) To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.
Manageability(n.) The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.
Manageable(a.) Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.
Managed(imp. & p. p.) of Manage
Management(v.) The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.
Management(v.) Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.
Management(v.) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.
Management(v.) The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.
Manager(n.) One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.
Manager(n.) A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist.
Manager(n.) A contriver; an intriguer.
Managing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manage

Words within manages