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In some senses, manage is marked as archaic, ironic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To direct or be in charge of.
Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.
Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
To handle or control (a situation, job).
The government managed the inflation very poorly.
To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
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.
He managed to climb the tower.
Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint.
Despite that, Swindon should have been level in stoppage time, but Mathieu Baudry somehow managed to put a free header over the crossbar from point-blank range.
noun
The act of managing or controlling something.
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.
You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..