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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
juggle
verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
balancing/juggling act
▪ For today's time-stressed parents, each day becomes a juggling act.
▪ But all face an awkward balancing act.
▪ But it's a crucial balancing act where you have to prioritise on a daily basis.
▪ Neither half of that balancing act has yet met with success.
▪ Now that balancing act has become more precarious than ever.
▪ Such a balancing act could keep his government in being only by increasing his own reputation for lack of principle.
▪ The question humankind must ask is whether the balancing act the president suggests is enough to stave off global devastation.
▪ The question now facing voters is which approach is likely to achieve the best balancing act.
▪ Using political power to reduce market inequalities requires a high-wire balancing act.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ By juggling the figures, Taylor can make the data say anything he wants.
▪ I don't think any man can ever understand the difficulties of juggling motherhood and politics.
▪ suburban working mothers who juggle careers, families, and after-school sports
▪ The film is about a maintenance man who juggles three jobs to provide for his family.
▪ With school starting, Anna will have to juggle her love of swimming with her homework.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He picked up a book on juggling which his daughter had brought home, and 4 months later he's teaching others.
▪ It helps users to juggle a variety of programs at once, each in its own window on the screen.
▪ Kennedy, like any president, tried to juggle the pressures brought on him by different aides.
▪ Our own experiments with people's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here.
▪ Popular actors juggled several productions at once.
▪ Some jiggling, oops, juggling was done.
▪ They have to juggle jobs and child care arrangements.
▪ To learn to juggle, take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juggle

Juggle \Jug"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Juggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Juggling.] [OE. juglen; cf. OF. jogler, jugler, F. jongler. See Juggler.]

  1. To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure; especially, to maintian several objects in the air at one time by tossing them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand, and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand.

  2. To practice artifice or imposture.

    Be these juggling fiends no more believed.
    --Shak.

Juggle

Juggle \Jug"gle\, v. t.

  1. To deceive by trick or artifice.

    Is't possible the spells of France should juggle Men into such strange mysteries?
    --Shak.

  2. To maintain (several objects) in continuous motion in the air at one time by tossing them up with one hand, catching them with the other hand, and passing them from the catching to the tossing hand; variations on this basic motion are also used. Also used figuratively: see senses 3 and 4.

  3. To alter (financial records) secretly for the purpose of theft or deception; as, to juggle the accounts. [Colloq.]

  4. To arrange the performance two tasks or responsibilities at alternate times, so as to be able to do both; as, to juggle the responsibilities of a job and a mother

Juggle

Juggle \Jug"gle\, n.

  1. A trick by sleight of hand.

  2. An imposture; a deception.
    --Tennyson.

    A juggle of state to cozen the people.
    --Tillotson.

  3. A block of timber cut to a length, either in the round or split.
    --Knight.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
juggle

late 14c., "entertain by clowning or doing tricks," back-formation from juggler and in part from Old French jogler "play tricks, sing songs," from Late Latin ioculare (source of Italian giocolare), from Latin ioculari "to jest" (see jocular). Related: Juggled; juggling.

Wiktionary
juggle

n. (qualifier: juggling) To throw and catch each prop at least twice, as a opposed to a flash#Noun. vb. 1 To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well. 2 To handle or manage many tasks at once. 3 (context ambitransitive English) To deceive by trick or artifice.

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WordNet
juggle

  1. n. the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression [syn: juggling]

  2. throwing and catching several objects simultaneously [syn: juggling]

juggle

  1. v. influence by slyness [syn: beguile, hoodwink]

  2. manipulate by or as if by moving around components; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit"

  3. deal with simultaneously; "She had to juggle her job and her children"

  4. throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously

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Usage examples of "juggle".

Dressed in gaudy tatters and besmudged with dirt, Alec watched gleefully as Seregil juggled, walked ropes, and mugged for the crowd.

Rubber Bible to hand as the fearless author juggles with triple points or the properties of ammonial ice eutectics.

The Aphorist read himself so well, that to juggle with himself was a necessity.

In the center, a skinny, gray-bearded man dressed only in ragged knee breeches was juggling four belaying pins.

I drank a bottle of excellent Rhenish wine which Catinella had juggled away to treat her intended husband, and which the worthy fellow thought could not have a better destination than to treat his future cousin.

Lan would not let the gleeman play harp or fluteno need to rouse the countryside, the Warder saidbut Thom juggled and told stories.

I called on him, and the offer of a sequin, together with my threats, compelled him to confess that he had been paid for his work by Signor Demetrio, a Greek, dealer in spices, a good and amiable man of between forty-five and fifty years, on whom I never played any trick, except in the case of a pretty, young servant girl whom he was courting, and whom I had juggled from him.

In a mirthful moment Canano said he had known me for seventeen years, his acquaintance dating from the time I had juggled a professional gamester, calling himself Count Celi, out of a pretty ballet-girl whom I had taken to Mantua.

Even under the sort of stress that would render another woman insensible, Bera ran a fearsomely orderly household, juggling tasks as disparate as descaling a fish with one hand while manning a heddle with the other with all the ease of Silva Lighthand at her best.

But maybe, the Kraut thought suddenly, just maybe there was a way he could juggle it.

How much nearer have we come to the secret of force than Lully and Geber and the whole crew of juggling alchemists?

He had juggled the books to disguise profits from a neuropeptide and other products sold to a Swiss firm.

The door had been a pig to rehang and she had ended up trying to read the book, take the weight of the door, and juggle with a manual screwdriver - because of course there was no electricity.

He sat juggling the paper cups unhandily on his lap while she smoothed her skirt over her knees.

Trying to feel deeply and think perfectly clearly at the same time was like simultaneously juggling six Indian clubs while riding a unicycle backward along a high wire.