manage

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  1. transitive verb To direct or control the use of; handle: manage a complex machine tool.
  2. transitive verb To exert control over: "Managing the news . . . is the oldest game in town” (James Reston). "A major crisis to be managed loomed on the horizon” (Time).
  3. transitive verb To make submissive to one's authority, discipline, or persuasion.

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  1. Italian maneggiare, from Vulgar Latin *manidiāre, from Latin manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Eearly modern English also menage; from Old French manege, French manège, the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, manœuvers, proceedings (Middle Latin managium), = Spanish Portuguese manejo, handling, management, from Italian maneggio, the handling or training of a horse, from maneggiare (= French manier), handle, touch, treat, manage, from mano, from Latin manus, the hand: see main, manual. The word has been partly confused, through the obsolete variant menage, with menage, household, household management: see menage.
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/ˈmænədʒ/
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