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Managed

Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed; p. pr. & vb. n. Managing.] [From Manage, n.]

  1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

    Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.
    --Sir I. Newton.

    What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.
    --Prior.

  2. Hence, Esp.: to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

    It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
    --Addison.

    It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.
    --Bp. Hurd.

  3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

  4. To treat with care; to husband.
    --Dryden.

  5. To bring about; to contrive.
    --Shak.

    Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.

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managed

vb. (en-past of: manage)

Usage examples of "managed".

Cisco nevertheless consistently managed to keep up with Lucent, and occasionally got to market ahead of it.

It managed to transport the stuff to fighting fronts as far apart as China, Russia, India, Africa, and Western Europe.

These days, practically all of us work for a managed institution, large or small, business or nonbusiness.

His or her master is the institution being managed and the first responsibility must therefore be to it.

He showed conclusively that different people have to be managed differently.

Implicit in this is that different groups in the work population have to be managed differently, and that the same group in the work population has to be managed differently at different times.

To be a successful entrepreneur, the existing business, large or small, has to be managed as an entrepreneurial business.

The business has outgrown being managed by one person, or even two people, and it now needs a management team at the top.

To this day the company has never been managed by chemists, but always by financial men who have made their career in a major Swiss bank.

Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.

But those companies that did prosper managed to do quite well for themselves and their shareholders.

The company managed to convert its entire technology base from a mechanical one in its early years, to an electromechanical base in its high-growth years, to a fully electronic and digital platform in the 1990s.

This research output was managed as a knowledge bank, in which ideas were kept on the shelf until a downstream business was ready and willing to use them.

However, these underutilized outputs will not last long on the shelf and should be managed accordingly.

IBM managed its patents with the goal of protecting its discoveries from being used by other companies.