Definition of manage
- n. - The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a
horse; management; administration. See Manege.
- n. - To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide;
to administer; to treat; to handle.
- 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.
- n. - To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful
or artful action.
- n. - To treat with care; to husband.
- n. - To bring about; to contrive.
- v. i. - To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to
administer.