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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manageable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
manageable proportions (=a size that is easy to deal with)
▪ First, narrow the choice down to more manageable proportions.
reduce sth to manageable etc proportions
▪ The disease had been reduced to negligible proportions by vaccination.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ They enable us to break up the larger and more nebulous goals, into smaller, more manageable pieces.
▪ Most are still expecting strong performance of the broader markets, but at a more manageable pace.
▪ Not unless he's more manageable.
▪ If Rohr had stopped there, its troubles would be more manageable today.
▪ Distributed Relational Database Architecture also makes information access, data modification and application development more manageable, the company claims.
▪ These categories are then subdivided or classified, so as to create more manageable groups that can later be analyzed.
▪ So we've combined them in a shampoo that makes dry hair lustrous and more manageable.
▪ I also found it quieter than my car and more manageable.
■ NOUN
level
▪ You wake up early, your desire sated, your hormones at manageable levels.
▪ Different countries put different interpretations on these manageable levels.
▪ And they realize the power of names to define subjectivity, reduce opposition to manageable levels, and induce paralysis.
size
▪ Literacy seems to be a factor in keeping the family to a manageable size.
▪ This cuts the odds down to a manageable size.
▪ Indeed, it was found to be difficult sometimes to keep down the number of journals to a manageable size.
▪ To do so she needed to scale down the orchestration to manageable size, and find a new and readily available cast.
▪ The club proposes to stick at around 50 members who represent a manageable size.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My hair's more manageable since I had it cut.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And so I divvied up the company into manageable pieces and told these executives to go play the game to the hilt.
▪ In addition, because so many colleges are involved, regional groups would be formed to allow for more manageable national negotiations.
▪ It had a nice smell and my hair felt very silky and manageable after I'd rinsed it.
▪ Literacy seems to be a factor in keeping the family to a manageable size.
▪ Most are still expecting strong performance of the broader markets, but at a more manageable pace.
▪ Russell Keys was, by all accounts, a clever, amusing man with manageable mental problems.
▪ They took any subject and made it manageable.
▪ What started out as a relatively manageable protest against stolen elections has now mushroomed into a full-fledged democracy movement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manageable

Manageable \Man"age*a*ble\, a. Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

Syn: Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. [1913 Webster] -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manageable

1590s, from manage + -able. Related: Manageably.

Wiktionary
manageable

a. Capable of being managed; governable; tractable; subservient.

WordNet
manageable

  1. adj. easy to handle or use or manage; "a large but wieldy book" [syn: wieldy] [ant: unwieldy]

  2. capable of being managed or controlled [ant: unmanageable]

  3. easily dealt with; "manageable problems"

Usage examples of "manageable".

Systems of Glyconics and Asclepiads are, if I mistake not, easily manageable, and are only thought foreign to the genius of our language because they have never been written on strict principles of art by a really great master.

He never bred the horse at the same hour two days running and he conspired with John Grady in telling the hacendado that the horse needed to be ridden to keep it manageable.

Four justices agreed that political gerrymandering claims are nonjusticiable because no judicially discernible and manageable standards for adjudicating such claims exist.

Discarding punctilio and maxims adapted to more manageable times, and looking only to the unprecedentedly stern facts of our case, can you do better in any possible event?

Sawyer and Sloat was more manageable before you got into real-estate investments and production deals.

A couple of police cruisers were parked cockeyed in the street, the uniforms trying to keep the newsies corralled in a manageable space, a job about as easy as herding cats.

Stafford Oakes quickly assured Spinks that the charges against him could be reduced to a manageable level-the drugs, especially.

She tugged at the talma, tucking and pressing it into a more manageable shape for riding.

From what I could determine, the Vissies invaded the Drips, breaking down their waste into manageable putty instead of hard rocks.

We need to turn the waste into useful particulates, soften the Drip pellets into a more manageable effluent, and get the Vissies out of the liquid lines, right?

I said as I batted the ball against the backstop a couple of times in order to bring it down to manageable velocity.

It would take only a few seconds for the two to denounce the masquerade, only a little longer to kill the three and put the Flenser members aboard a more manageable pack.

A history of ideas clearly touches on a vast amount of material and ways must be found to make this array manageable.

Then, too, there will be pups to be taught hunting on more manageable prey.

Discarding punctilio and maxims adapted to more manageable times, and looking only to the unprecedentedly stern facts of our case, can you do better in any possible event?