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单词 manage
释义

manage

1 of 2

verb

man·​age ˈma-nij How to pronounce manage (audio)
managed; managing

transitive verb

1
: to handle or direct with a degree of skill: such as
a
: to exercise executive, administrative, and supervisory direction of
manage a business
manage a bond issue
manages a baseball team
b
: to treat with care : husband
managed his resources carefully
c
: to make and keep compliant
can't manage their child
2
: to direct the professional career of
an agency that manages entertainers
3
: to succeed in accomplishing : contrive
managed to escape from prison
4
: to work upon or try to alter for a purpose
manage the press
manage stress

intransitive verb

1
: to achieve one's purpose
He managed only by careful planning.
2
a
: to direct or carry on business or affairs
also : to direct a baseball team
b
: to admit of being carried on

manage

2 of 2

noun

1
a
: the schooling or handling of a horse
b
: a riding school
c
archaic : the action and paces of a trained riding horse
2
obsolete : management

Synonyms

Verb

  • address
  • contend (with)
  • cope (with)
  • field
  • grapple (with)
  • hack
  • handle
  • maneuver
  • manipulate
  • negotiate
  • play
  • swing
  • take
  • treat
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Example Sentences

Verb The business is managed by the owner's daughter. The company is badly managed. When she managed the department, we never missed a deadline. He manages his own finances. an agency that manages entertainers He is skillful in managing horses. There's enough food if we manage it well. We need to do a better job of managing our natural resources. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Other volunteers set up roadblocks and other barriers to manage crowds. WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022 For a while, Prentice tried to manage his own two-a-days, running in the morning with McCoy and lifting and practicing routes in the afternoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2022 And YouTube has resorted to curation to manage messes from its scale—putting content from health agencies and news outlets in prominent places during the pandemic and other events prone to conspiracy mongering. Mark Bergen, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022 To manage your notifications, go to the Watch app and scroll to each individual app. Adrienne So, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022 Lois was hired in 2017 to manage the Foxconn project. Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022 While Hubble did manage to capture many of the same star-forming regions and young stars, the images are not as clear as the one captured by Webb. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2022 To find community as well as resources, tips, and strategies to manage your condition, this app seems to have it all. Adele Jackson-gibson, SELF, 29 Aug. 2022 Such threats are too serious to leave to social media companies to manage on their own. Kara Alaimo For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
Noun
Controllers at the center manage airspace in northern Florida, big chunks of central Florida and parts of other southeastern states. Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022 This spectacular but easy-to-manage plant has huge leaves with delicate, lacelike edges. Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 21 July 2022 The trend of arming employees with robust, timely data and feedback to self-manage is growing. Alexander Kvamme, Forbes, 5 May 2022 When a company has a rotten culture, sometimes the company pleads guilty and sometimes individuals do or are convicted, but the people calling the shots at the top of the pyramid manage to avoid any legal liability. Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022 Surprisingly enough, the set for the fictional hotel that Bella Ainsworth (played by Natascha McElhone) and her family manage was located about 400 miles east of Portofino, in Croatia. Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2022 Huber went on the manage an unsuccessful campaign in 2020 against a voter initiative that ends party primaries and institutes ranked choice voting for general elections. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 June 2022 How can a department with this edict manage to get focused on treating employees like customers? Dustin Snyder, Forbes, 16 May 2022 Unlike internal, long-term hires, freelancers generally don’t interpret your business needs, project-manage, solve business problems or consider marketing and SEO. Yec, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Italian maneggiare, from mano hand, from Latin manus

Noun

Italian maneggio management, training of a horse, from maneggiare

First Known Use

Verb

1561, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Noun

circa 1587, in the meaning defined at sense 1c

Kids Definition

manage

verb

man·​age ˈma-nij How to pronounce manage (audio)
managed; managing
1
: to look after and make decisions about
manage money
A local woman will manage the new hotel.
2
: to succeed in doing : accomplish what is desired
Stanley still managed to hold the sack of jars in his left hand as he slowly moved up … Louis Sachar, Holes

Medical Definition

manage

transitive verb

man·​age ˈman-ij How to pronounce manage (audio)
managed; managing
: to conduct the management of
poorly managed diabetes

manage

verb

1
as in to handle
to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently as usual, she managed the crisis with a minimum of fuss

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • handle
  • manipulate
  • address
  • negotiate
  • treat
  • take
  • maneuver
  • play
  • field
  • hack
  • control
  • swing
  • regulate
  • pull
  • engineer
  • steer
  • micromanage
  • come to grips with
  • cope (with)
  • contend (with)
  • have a grip on
  • carry out
  • guide
  • direct
  • finesse
  • grapple (with)
  • get off
  • carry off
  • jockey
  • bring off
  • command
  • run
  • react (to)
  • respond (to)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • botch
  • bungle
  • mishandle
  • fumble
  • goof (up)
  • louse up
  • scamp
  • muff
  • mess (up)
  • foozle
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2
as in to supervise
to look after and make decisions about managed a household and a business simultaneously

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • supervise
  • oversee
  • operate
  • handle
  • regulate
  • control
  • govern
  • conduct
  • run
  • administer
  • administrate
  • tend
  • keep
  • direct
  • protect
  • superintend
  • guide
  • steward
  • watch over
  • carry on
  • steer
  • overlook
  • watch
  • lead
  • safeguard
  • preside (over)
  • micromanage
  • guard
  • stage-manage
  • pilot
  • mind
  • care (for)
  • comanage
  • codirect
3
as in to cope
to meet one's day-to-day needs it'll be hard for a few weeks, but we'll manage

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • cope
  • do
  • survive
  • afford
  • get by
  • shift
  • fare
  • make shift
  • get along
  • make out
  • get on
  • contrive
  • make do
  • scrounge
  • make ends meet
  • fend for oneself
  • carry on
  • squeeze
  • eke out
  • wrest
  • last
  • wring
  • swing
  • scrape (by or through)
  • scrape (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • fail
  • fall short
  • collapse
  • decline
  • flounder
  • wane
  • fizzle
  • slump
  • give up
  • peter (out)
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Synonym Chooser

Some common synonyms of manage are conduct, control, and direct. While all these words mean "to use one's powers to lead, guide, or dominate," manage implies direct handling and manipulating or maneuvering toward a desired result.

manages a meat market

The words conduct and manage are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, conduct implies taking responsibility for the acts and achievements of a group.

conducted negotiations

In some situations, the words control and manage are roughly equivalent. However, control implies a regulating or restraining in order to keep within bounds or on a course.

controlling his appetite

The meanings of direct and manage largely overlap; however, direct implies constant guiding and regulating so as to achieve smooth operation.

directs the store's day-to-day business
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