Thesaurus: manage

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1. n. The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
2. n. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
3. 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.
4. n. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
5. n. To treat with care; to husband.
6. n. To bring about; to contrive.
7. v. i. To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.
8. v. be successful; achieve a goal
9. v. be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
10. v. succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
11. v. watch and direct
12. v. achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods