manage

To direct or be in charge of.transitive

• Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.

To handle or control (a situation, job).transitive

• The government managed the inflation very poorly.

To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).transitive

• It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
• The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […].

To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.intransitive

• He managed to climb the tower.

To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.; To end up doing something that could or should have been avoided.intransitiveironic

• She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint.

To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.ambitransitive

• It's a tough job, but I'll manage.

To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.transitive

• "That's nice, dear!", she managed.

To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.transitive

To treat with care; to husband.obsoletetransitive

• [She] […]manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot

To bring about; to contrive.obsoletetransitive

• in a town of war, Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear, To manage private and domestic quarrel, In night, and on the court and guard of safety!

The act of managing or controlling something.archaicuncountable

• the winged God himſelfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […].
• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.

Manège.uncountable

• You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..