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managing |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Managed}; p. pr & vb n. {Managing}.] [From {Manage}, n.] 1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle. Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. --Sir I. Newton. What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. --Prior. 2. 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. It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. --Addison. It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. --Bp. Hurd. 3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action 4. To treat with care to husband. --Dryden. 5. To bring about to contrive. --Shak. Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order contrive; concert; conduct; transact. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: managing n : the act of managing something "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?" [syn: {management}, {direction}]
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