manage

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To succeed in doing something difficult.

   After several tries, he finally managed to open the jammed door.

2. 2
   verb

   To be in charge of or control a business, team, or group of people.

   Even though Jack is new, he manages his team with great success.

3. 3
   verb

   To deal with or handle a situation or problem.

   The government managed the crisis very poorly.

4. 4
   verb

   To cope or get by, especially in difficult circumstances.

   It's a tough job, but I'll manage somehow.

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Simplified etymology

Manage entered English in the mid-16th century. Its earliest English sense was ‘handle or train a horse’, and it goes back through Italian to Latin manus ‘hand’. The word is now also used of managing businesses.

From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from Vulgar Latin *manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izāre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of manège. Compare typologically English handle; Russian руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ) (< рука́ (ruká)).

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