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Definitions
To handle, direct, cope with, or succeed in doing something.
Word origin
From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from Vulgar Latin *manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izāre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of manège.
Used in a sentence
“Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.”
“The government managed the inflation very poorly.”
“It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Handle successfully”6 letters
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