manage implies direct handling and manipulating or maneuvering toward a desired result.

MANAGE definition: to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship. See examples of manage used in a sentence.

When you have a job as well as children to take care of, you have to learn how to manage your time. I saw a harried-looking mother at the checkout trying to manage two small children and a …

1. (also intr) to be in charge (of); administer: to manage one's affairs; to manage a shop. 2. to succeed in being able (to do something) despite obstacles; contrive: did you manage to go to …

If you manage, you succeed in coping with a difficult situation. She had managed perfectly well without medication for three years.

to take charge or care of: to manage my investments. to dominate or influence (a person) by tact, flattery, or artifice: He manages the child with exemplary skill.

Definition of manage verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.