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.